Re: Lout and accented characters

[Valery Ushakov]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:32:39 +0200, FA - ML wrote:


> Judging by what is written in the User Guide, I thought those
> accented character would display "correctly", but that isn't so
> (check the .ps attachment).
>
> What am I missing?  Italian is latin1, so I don't see how what I
> should import to have the accented characters displayed correctly.

My guess is that your input file was really in utf-8.  It was recoded
by your mailer for attachment, I would guess, but the PostScript
output contains:

0 13578(perch\303\251)m 937(\303 )s 1230(me)s 3(glio)k
1944(cos\303\254)s 2564(.)s 

which are obviously utf-8 sequences:

$ echo -ne '\0303\0251' | iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1 | hexdump -C 
00000000  e9                                                |.|
00000001

and 0xE9 is LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE; etc.

-uwe