Michael B. Allen wrote on 2002-04-28 04:55 UTC:
> What is the state of printing Unicode?
Dire.
> I have been using Markus'
> utf2ps.c successfully but of course it only supports a very small set
> of glyphs. Here's the 4 corners for the box and line drawing symbols BTW:
>
> { 0x250C, 1, "{0.05 setlinewidth 0.5 0 moveto 0.5 1 lineto 1 1 lineto stroke} bgr"
>},
> { 0x2510, 1, "{0.05 setlinewidth 0.5 0 moveto 0.5 1 lineto 0 1 lineto stroke} bgr"
>},
> { 0x2514, 1, "{0.05 setlinewidth 0.5 2 moveto 0.5 1 lineto 1 1 lineto stroke} bgr"
>},
> { 0x2518, 1, "{0.05 setlinewidth 0.5 2 moveto 0.5 1 lineto 0 1 lineto stroke} bgr"
>},
Thanks, added.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf2ps.c
> Is this being developed further?
It was merely meant as a proof-of-concept, but if you or anyone sends me
extensions like the above, I'd be happy to include them. In particular
completing the remaining block graphics section is simple,
straightforward and incredibly boring.
> I think Mozilla could use that for sure.
Mozilla 0.99 can already print substantially beyond Latin-1, but there
remain a few gaps to be filled.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123408
Markus
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