Globalized PPD and High-ASCII translations for main and option keywords

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Jan 26 05:26:49 PST 2007


Dmitry Sharov wrote:
> ...
> Does this mean that I cannot use hexadecimal string to provide High-ASCII symbols in translations for main and option keywords?
> ...
> And I should use instead something like this?
> ..
> *TextAngle Deg45/45: "userdict /TextAngle 45 put"
> *en.TextAngle Deg45/45<A1>: ""
> ..

Actually, <A1> would need to be converted to UTF-8 (<C2A1>) for the
TextAngle translation, but you have the right idea.

(the current CUPS code can handle either method, but we wrote the
spec the way we did to avoid having multiple encodings in the same
file...)

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