>> To make the report more easily reproducible and investigated, it is >> better to leave printing.el commands that invoke Ghostview out of the >> picture, since invoking external commands could produce other >> irrelevant issues. If you instead produce a PostScript buffer out of >> your text and look at the produced PostScript, do you see the question >> marks there, and if so, for which characters? I did emacs -Q ~/tmp/multibyte.txt --eval '(ps-spool-buffer)' then in *PostScript* there are question marks for: - capital letter L slash - small letter n acute - small letter z acute >> With the exception of o acute, the other characters aren't Latin-1, so >> I think what you see is expected. To see more characters, you need to >> customize ps-mule.el; at least ps-mule-font-info-database-default >> should be customized. Maybe you should also install GNU >> Intlfonts. I installed these. >> I suggest to read the commentary at the beginning of >> ps-mule.el for more details. Thanks. The documentation for ps-mule-font-info-database-default says, it's used if ps-multibyte-buffer is nil. So I customized ps-multibyte-buffer to 'bdf-font-except-latin and spooled again. With the same result question mark-wise. I then tried additionally ps-mule-font-info-database-default with an additional entry Symbol: utf-8 with font source bdf (I have no clue how to customize this variable). This resulted in the same 3 question marks in the *PostScript* buffer. I do not really understand how this works and how to customize it. Since my multibyte.txt file is loaded in a buffer with an "U" in the left corner of the mode line, I expected emacs to do the right thing also with regard to printing. But thanks for your help. I'll do some internet search when I have more time for this. Ciao, -- Gregor