Hi, I'm pleased to announce that Remind 3.4.0 Beta 1 is available for testing. This release significantly improves Remind's handling of UTF text. It also ships with a brand-new rem2pdf back-end that produces PDF output. Unlike rem2ps, rem2pdf can handle the full Unicode character set.
Rem2pdf uses Cairo and Pango to render the calendars and is written in Perl. As a result, you will require the Cairo and Pango Perl modules to be installed. This release also significantly improves Remind's support for non-English languages, allowing you to set month and weekday names in calendars to whatever you like, even if Remind has not been compiled with support for your language. Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.04.00-BETA-1.tar.gz GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.12.tar.gz.sig Release notes follow. Regards, Dianne. CHANGES TO REMIND * VERSION 3.4 Patch 0 - 2022-??-?? - MAJOR CHANGE: Remind and its helpers (except for rem2ps) fully support UTF-8. If your system locale is a UTF-8 locale and your terminal can handle UTF-8 encoding, you can enjoy full Unicode support in Remind. - NEW FEATURE: Added a rem2pdf Remind-to-PDF converter. It can handle the full UTF-8 character set and features a new PANGO special reminder type that lets you format the text in the PDF calendar (by changing the font size, color, underlining, etc.) rem2pdf requires the Pango and Cairo Perl modules. On Debian or Debian-derived systems, these may be installed with: apt install libpango-perl libcairo-perl - NEW FEATURE: remind: New system variables $Sunday through $Saturday and $January through $December let you set weekday and month names to whatever you like, permitting you to produce calendars in your local language, even if it's not one of the languages Remind supports by default. - NEW FEATURE: tkremind: If rem2pdf installed, TkRemind offers you the choice of PDF or PostScript output in the Print dialog. - BUG FIX: Properly support formatting of double-wide characters in the terminal mode "remind -c" calendar. - IMPROVEMENT: All localized languages now use UTF-8 exclusively. Support for old character encodings like ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2 has been dropped since modern UNIXes have pretty much standardized on UTF-8. - CHANGE: remind: Non-English versions of remind *no longer* accept non-English month- and weekday-names in trigger specifications. This was a misfeature. NOTE INCOMPATIBILITY. * VERSION 3.3 Patch 12 - 2022-01-24
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