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23.2; Encoding of PostScript files

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Message #80 received at 7786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 7786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7786: 23.2; Encoding of PostScript files
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:09:28 +0200

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE> writes:

> You could use any text file and convert it into PostScript. It should
> not matter whether you use a2ps or enscript or something else.

Well, the problem is that I can't find anything that actually generates
codes that match the Wikipedia listing.

With a text file like this:

This is a sentence with `foo'.

a2ps gives me

(This is a sentence with `foo'.) p n

Note that the ` is 0x60, not 0x2018, like Wikipedia says it should be.

Perhaps the reason no software out there actually supports this encoding
is that it's not actually used in nature.

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