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Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ????

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In message <526d540327see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
          Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> 
wrote:

> In article <526d3ccc84Spambin@argonet.co.uk>, Stuart
> <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
>> In article <d7db326d52.martin@bach.planiverse.com>,
>> Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> wrote:
>>>> For example, if an e-mail is received in iso-8859-2
>>>> (= Latin-2), Pluto displays the latin-2 characters
>>>> correctly (I use Trinity as my standard font in
>>>> Pluto), but what prints out is Latin-1.

>>> That points to a fault in Pluto, not the font.

>> Unless he's got "Use printer's text font" ticked perhaps,
>> it's what I normally use

> Printing is supposed to be in Trinity, but I see that that
> option is also ticked in the print dialogue.

OK, in that case Pluto sends plain text to the printer and neither the 
RISC OS font nor the RISC OS printer driver is involved.

There is no way Pluto can tell the printer what the encoding is 
because that is a printer specific feature.  Of course, it could be 
done for PCL printers, but Pluto would have to have special support 
for that. Basically, Pluto would have to have its own drivers for all 
sorts of printers. Back to the 80s! But then, plain text printing is 
very much 80s.

I do not think Pluto should attempt to print anything except ASCII 
characters directly to a printer via plain text printing. Even with 
Latin-1 characters outside the ASCII range, e.g., accented characters, 
there is no guarantee that the printer will print anything sensible.

If Pluto can print via the RISC OS printer driver like most other 
applications (which, I presume, it does if you untick that option), 
then that should work with Latin-2 text just fine.

-- 
Martin
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Martin Wuerthner         MW Software      http://www.mw-software.com/
        RISC OS Software for Design, Printing and Publishing
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Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? castlevarich <castlevarich@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 09:25 -0800
  Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-07 23:24 +0100
    Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 09:45 +0000
      Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-08 12:07 +0100
        Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 12:11 +0000
          Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Grahame Parish <maillist.parish@millers-way.net> - 2012-03-08 12:43 +0000
            Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 14:13 +0100
              Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-08 19:03 +0100
        Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 12:56 +0000
          Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 17:10 +0000
            Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-08 19:13 +0100
            Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Brian Carroll <bric-nospam@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 20:10 +0000
              Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 21:23 +0000

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