(mgp-users 00095) Re: newbee Question

[Martin Horauer <horauer@ict.tuwien.ac.at>]

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, you wrote:
>>> 	- mgp2ps has no way to understand which file encoding you are using.
>>> 	  If mgp2ps sees 0xa1, it can be European character (iso-8859-1) or
>>> 	  part of Japanese character, or even Russian.
>>Just add a command line switch for this. And set one of either as a default
>>(perhaps via environement variable or in some config file).
>
>	This is new print.c which supports Latin1 (iso-8859-1).
>	Does it make any help for you?  I made some tests but I'm not quite
>	sure if it is working right.
>
>	% ./mgp2ps -e iso-8859-1 foo.mgp > foo.ps
>	(sorry for big email toward mailing list)

Yes it works fine so far - but the latest snapshot is required for compilation!
		ftp://sh.wide.ad.jp/WIDE/free-ware/mgp-snap/

regards
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Martin
   
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