Re: Why unicode encoding is not supported?

[Dedeco Balaco]

I discovered that, for a mistake I did, i was not subscribed to this
list until 2h30mins ago (I had to make another subscription request).
But my 2 previous messages were silently accepted in the list! But I did
not receive an answers that talks about "paps" software. But I could not
find this software. Who wrote this message: can you please send me a
link about this software? I only found completely unrelated sites, about
absurd things that are called "paps", for several kinds of acronyms, and
are somewhat related to some software.

And I would like to see comments about this subject (this thread's) made
by a2ps developers, or people experienced in using it.

Thank you



Em 21/03/2023 20:27, Dedeco Balaco escreveu:
>
> No comment by anyone?
>
> Today, I have read https://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/manual/a2ps.html
> for a2ps version 4.15.2. It mentions Unicode, but given what I have
> read before, specifically what I described in the previous message, I
> am not sure about it.
>
> Please, can someone clarify this doubt for me?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> Em 12/03/2023 22:08, Dedeco Balaco escreveu:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently discovered the existence of *a2ps*, and now, I am willing
>> to give it some tries, and practice what it can do that could be good
>> for me.
>>
>> But it seems that unicode is not supported at all, from what is
>> written in the *README* file that comes with the source package,
>> other files in it, and (possibly) other details written in the a2ps
>> page in gnu.org <https://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/> and the project
>> page in Savannah <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/a2ps/>.
>>
>> First, there is an issue that only 12 encodings are mentioned in the
>> *README *file:
>>
>>         latin1, latin2, latin3, latin4, latin5, latin6,
>>         ascii,  hp,     mac,    ibmpc,  pcg,    cp1250
>>
>> But some more are mentioned in the file *encoding/encoding.map*. But
>> *Unicode*, *UTF-8* and *UTF-16* are not there. But will it work if
>> people use the other encondings that are not in this *map* file?
>>
>> And the 12 encodings listed mean that *a2ps* cannot work with input
>> files that use characters not present in them?
>>
>> A comment just for Reuben: it is noticeable all the details you added
>> in the message sent to GNU mailing list. I would not look around to
>> test this project today, but I read the "new details" in the email,
>> and they broke my idea.
>>
>> The best for everyone!    *(:*
>>
>>
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