Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) - opinions please

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Date	2022-01-24 08:37 -0800
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Subject	Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) - opinions please
From	luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com>

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On Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 6:56:13 AM UTC-6, Carlos wrote:
> V Sun, 23 Jan 2022 14:10:12 +1100 
> David Newall <dav...@davidnewall.com> napsáno:

> [...]
> > Opinions? Would adding to a font dictionary going to break things? 
> > (I'm looking at you, Acrobat and Distiller.)
> Don't know about that, I only use Ghostscript. But if the reason to add 
> a lookup is speed, a possible optimization could be not to call 
> unicodeshow on each codepoint, but identify string intervals where all 
> bytes are either <= 127 or > 127. Call show on the former, and utfshow 
> on the latter. 
> 
> C.

Or if speed is not a problem, you could implement a replacement for
kshow instead of show. Then the whole show family can easily be built 
off of that.

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Printing UTF8 (Unicode) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-01-21 21:56 +1100
  Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) Carlos <carlos@cvkm.cz> - 2022-01-21 14:23 +0100
    Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-01-22 12:27 +1100
  Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-01-23 13:31 +1100
    Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) Carlos <carlos@cvkm.cz> - 2022-01-23 13:35 +0100
      Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-01-26 14:59 +1100
        Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) Carlos <carlos@cvkm.cz> - 2022-02-10 15:05 +0100
          Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-02-16 13:55 +1100
  Printing UTF8 (Unicode) - opinions please David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-01-23 14:10 +1100
    Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) - opinions please Carlos <carlos@cvkm.cz> - 2022-01-23 13:56 +0100
      Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) - opinions please luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2022-01-24 08:37 -0800
    Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) - opinions please luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2022-01-24 08:33 -0800
      Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) - opinions please David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-01-26 15:06 +1100

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