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23.2; Encoding of PostScript files

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE, 7786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7786: 23.2; Encoding of PostScript files
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:25:29 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  7786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.

And what a2ps produces prints correctly on a PS printer?

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