>>>>> "Erik" == Erik de Castro Lopo <[email protected]> writes:
>> With UTF-8 it's a problem. Erik> That's what I'm finding. >> My preferred solution would be to change to a XeLaTeX template, and >> generate PDF/PS from that. as XeLaTeX already understands UTF-8 and >> Unicode, and can import PDF graphics, or use a PDF file as a >> background over which to put imported text/grachics, Erik> This would be a solution if it was something I was running in Erik> front of me on my own machine. Unfortunately, this is being done Erik> to print tickets in kiosk type devices administered remotely Erik> over the net. It this situation I would prefer not to run LaTeX Erik> because a) it's rather slow in comparison to what we have now Erik> and b) doing error detecion/recovery is hard. Error detection and recovery are going to be hard anyway, unless you can sanitise your input. I'm not aware of any font that has all the glyphs you need to cover all possible UTF-8 characters. There is postscript code available from anastigmatix,net to convert from UTF-8 to Unicode, but you're still going to have to cope with right-to-left vs left-to-right, and various `compose' sequences (ligatures). Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
