[GRASS-user] Character encoding problem

[Glynn Clements]

Miha Staut wrote:

> The same holds true for hardcopy output command ps.map as far as I
> know. Correct me if I am wrong. Miha

ps.map requires that text uses ISO-8859-1; whenever you select a font,
it creates an ISO-8859-1 version of the font (if it doesn't already
exist) and uses that.

PostScript only has two named encoding vectors for text:
StandardEncoding and ISOLatin1Encoding. StandardEncoding is only used
by PostScript; you are unlikely to have any text in that format.

Using other encodings in PostScript requires defining the encoding
vector, and it requires the PostScript implementation to have suitable
fonts. And using a non-unibyte encoding is quite complex.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>