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Re: Special characters in PostScript [message #63710 is a reply to message #63687]

Tue, 18 November 2008 07:15

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Bernhard Reinhardt writes:

> is it possible to print special charakters like umlaut vowels in a
> simple way to postscript files?
>
> I´ve read Davids article "How can I place a less-than-or-equal sign (≤)
> in my PostScript output?". But that is to complicated for routine use.
>
> Is there something like setting a variable at startup to "ISO 8859-1".
> The worst thing I´d accept would be a string converter-function. Like
>
> title=convert_special_chars('Viele Umlaute: üöüöäßß')
> plot, TITLE=title
>
> Does something like that exist? If not, I rather resign on these characters.

Life can be tough some days. :-(

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Special characters in PostScript By: David Fanning on Wed, 19 November 2008 05:45
		Re: Special characters in PostScript By: R.Bauer on Wed, 19 November 2008 04:14
		Re: Special characters in PostScript By: Bernhard Reinhardt on Wed, 19 November 2008 03:43
		Re: Special characters in PostScript By: R.Bauer on Wed, 19 November 2008 01:52
		Re: Special characters in PostScript By: Bernhard Reinhardt on Wed, 19 November 2008 00:12
		Re: Special characters in PostScript By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 November 2008 07:15
		Re: Special characters in PostScript By: R.Bauer on Tue, 18 November 2008 06:56
		Re: Special characters in PostScript By: Bernhard Reinhardt on Thu, 20 November 2008 01:33
		Re: Special characters in PostScript By: David Fanning on Thu, 20 November 2008 06:56

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