printing UTF-8 text mixed with PCL code

[Matthias Apitz]

> >> Well, why the conversion to PostScript at all? From your post I guess
> >> that formerly the "text mixed with PCL code" has been transferred to the
> >> printer(s) without furteher manipulation.
> >> Why not converting the UTF-8 text back to ISO8859-1 for printing?
> >
> > Because we (and the customer) want to print not only ISO 8859-1 chars.
> > This (converting back to ISO) is the actual dirty fallback solution.
> >
> >     matthias
>
> Well, when you do font handling etc. using PCL commands, that means you rely
> on the printer's PCL interpreter.
> As for HP printers, each printer model supports a subset of a fairly large
> set of "character sets" which can be switched by PCL commands. So for a real
> printer you *need* to convert the UTF-8 text "back" to the appropriate
> character sets.
>

We checked this. The installed set of chars in the printer is very
limited and not usefull for printing converted UTF-8 chars. We need
a Postscript "picture" which includes the very few big font chars
and OCR-B chars.

    matthias