[Remind-Fans] Print calendar

Jostein Berntsen jbernts at broadpark.no
Fri Jun 25 06:10:27 EDT 2010


On 22.06.10,17:40, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> On 22.06.10,10:40, David F. Skoll wrote:
> > Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> > 
> > > I have tried getting rem2ps to print a month calendar, and also print æ, 
> > > ø, å characters correctly.
> > 
> > rem2ps is pretty old and it doesn't handle UTF-8.  If the Scandinavian
> > characters are available in ISO-8859-1 encoding, you might be able to get
> > them to print correctly with the "-i" option of rem2ps (assuming your
> > source file is encoded in ISO-8859-1.)
> > 
> > Actually... Remind as a whole does not handle internationalization or
> > UTF-8 well at all. :(  It really needs fixing.
> > 
> 
> I have applied this patch for utf-8 to remind, taken from this web site:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/remind-fans@lists.whatexit.org/msg00144.html
> 
> This fixes output of æ, ø, å in the remind calendar, but not rem2ps. The 
> patch applies nicely to 3.1.9 as well.
> 

Is it possible to patch rem2ps with a similar patch?


Jostein





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