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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:28:52 +0400
From: Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-help] gEDA unicode in Windows
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:13:22AM -0700, John Doty wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Vladimir Zhbanov wrote:
...
> > The patchset was about incorrect glyphs in Postscript. Unfortunately, It
> > cannot fix a fact that some printing fonts don't contain some glyphs
> > (like Nimbus Sans not containing cyrillic ones). Therefore in some cases
> > a workaround would be to change the printing font. I use this workaround
> > very often because Nimbus Sans is the default font to substitute for
> > Helvetica in Debian.  For example, I can see all these symbols on my
> > screen: µ μ Ω Ω; but only first (mu) is visible in my output Postscript
> > when the font is Helvetica, and only first (mu) and third (omega) when
> > the font is Arial. Two others are showing as square boxes.
> 
> In more difficult cases, such as "日本語", the generated PostScript is
> so faulty that some interpreters just fail, while others ignore it.

FYI, geda's Postscript uses only one byte glyphs and I did nothing in
that patchset to improve this. So your Japanese symbols (they're
Japanese, right?) will never be printed correct with this version.

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