printing iso-8859-1 problems

[rsj at post5.tele.dk]

On 27 May 2003, jarausch at igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a problem with TkRat's postscript (pretty)
>> printing. 
>> TkRat does show the German umlaut correctly
>> (the message has Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=iso-8859-1)
>> but when printing the message most umlauts get lost.
>

On 28 May 2003, maf at tkrat.org wrote:On 28 May, maf at tkrat.org wrote:
>This is due to a bug (or to put a more positive spin on it, the fact
>that TkRat expects too much of the local system). A fix is in the cvs
>(current and v2_1_branch).
>
>	/MaF

I know this may be flogging a dead horse, but unfortunately I have a
problem with pretty-printing even in newer versions.
All danish characters or characters with accents are displayed correct
in X, but when printed they appear as à (capitol A with some accent
followed by some exotic character).
I have read through the approprate? thread from May 2003, and tried to
read through later sources with the change dated 030528, but the
solution eludes me.
I have tried all available snapshots and various cvs, yet the problem
prevails.
Is there some special compile-time option I need to invoke, or is it an
external problem perhaps? Any particular demands regarding the flavor
Ghostscript or other involved sw?
I am presently running Fedora Core 2, TkRat 2.2dev 20040824, 
GNU a2ps 4.13, GNU Ghostscript 7.07.

TIA.

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Sune Jacobsen - mailto: rsj at post5.tele.dk