Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode)

Subject	Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
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From	David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Date	2022-01-22 12:27 +1100
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On 22/1/22 12:23 am, Carlos wrote:
> David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>:
>> I've written some PostScript to allow me to print UTF8-encoded
>> strings:
> 
> This is great!

Thank you.  It seemed a problem which needed to be solved.  I hope I've 
made a start that's good enough to criticize.

> Doesn't "x glyphshow y glyphshow" lose the kerning between x and y?
> (I'm not really sure)

PostScript doesn't automatically kern.  There are operators you can use 
to do that, but it is something you have to do.

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  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
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      Re: Printing UTF8 (Unicode) - opinions please David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-01-26 15:06 +1100

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