From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 16:54:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1532B106566C for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:54:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8380B8FC1A for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.erewhon.net (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p6JGrMld051207; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:53:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.erewhon.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 27C16BAAB; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:53:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:53:22 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: "Julian H. Stacey" Message-ID: <20110719165322.GA57711@slackbox.erewhon.net> References: <20110718145901.GB71153@slackbox.erewhon.net> <201107191154.p6JBsTm9091796@fire.js.berklix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201107191154.p6JBsTm9091796@fire.js.berklix.net> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: groff && UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:54:00 -0000 --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:54:29PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > If you want to produce postscript output from groff, you will have to d= eal > > with postscript fonts. The usual Type 1 fonts are single-byte fonts. Gr= off > > only deals with Latin-1 characters (see groff_char(7)). >=20 > What is Latin-1 ? A informal name for the single-byte character set published in the ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998 standard. The preferred name is ISO-8859-1. See=20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 BTW, these days ISO-8859-15 (a.k.a. Latin-9) is supposed to have superseded= in in Europe, as it adds the Euro sign and some extra ligatures and accented letters. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-15 However, more and more systems and programs are switching to Unicode these days, especially the UTF-8 encoding. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8] As opposed to Type 1 postscript fonts, TrueType or OpenType fonts can handle t= he thousands of glyphs that are often present in Unicode typefaces. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4ltoIACgkQEnfvsMMhpyWavACglKcgknDqfxzVV/J+xtRCmwh7 QWcAnRPQAKmde9uFzVKk5E7zipnPD2al =wmME -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW--