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Re: Using special characters like ©

From Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: Using special characters like ©
Followup-To comp.lang.postscript
Date 2013-07-14 20:41 +0200
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luser- -droog wrote:

>[...]
> 
> Looks like you're getting a 2-byte Unicode character.
> Postscript really doesn't work with Unicode.
Though looking a liitle bit queer, using the Adobe glyph list
and the glyphshoe operator you *can* render Unicode strings in PostScript, 
provided the font(s) used provide the respective glyphs *and* sort of well 
formed glyph names.
See the core procedure in the attachment.

Helge



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Using special characters like © Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2013-07-14 17:10 +0200
  Re: Using special characters like © luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-07-14 09:50 -0700
    Re: Using special characters like © Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-07-14 20:41 +0200
    Re: Using special characters like © Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2013-07-14 20:34 +0200
    Re: Using special characters like © Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2013-07-15 14:10 +0200

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