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On Nov 19, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Vladimir Zhbanov wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:52:21PM +0000, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> ...
>>> Actually, I don't think gschem copes properly with _printing_ generic
>>> unicode symbols. On-screen should work just fine, but IIRC, the
>>> printing code has not yet been updated to use cairo rendering.
>> 
>> I'm confused. What was the bug 720218 patch set about?  I'm sure that 
>> printing unicode symbols should work... I have many schematics that use 
>> mu, Omega etc. and they seem to print fine (on Linux)!
> 
> The patchset was about incorrect glyphs in Postscript. Unfortunately, It
> cannot fix a fact that some printing fonts don't contain some glyphs
> (like Nimbus Sans not containing cyrillic ones). Therefore in some cases
> a workaround would be to change the printing font. I use this workaround
> very often because Nimbus Sans is the default font to substitute for
> Helvetica in Debian.  For example, I can see all these symbols on my
> screen: µ μ Ω Ω; but only first (mu) is visible in my output Postscript
> when the font is Helvetica, and only first (mu) and third (omega) when
> the font is Arial. Two others are showing as square boxes.

In more difficult cases, such as "日本語", the generated PostScript is so faulty that some interpreters just fail, while others ignore it.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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