[Remind-Fans] Remind and UTF-8

[David F. Skoll]

Kresimir Kumericki wrote:

> However, rem2ps produces PS file which still doesn't support
> UTF-8 encoded characters.

That's because (AFAIK) PostScript itself doesn't support UTF-8 directly.
You need this tool: http://u2ps.berlios.de/ (probably packaged in Ubuntu
as gnome-u2ps).

> And, while compiling with ./wish build.tk there was no option to
> choose UTF-8 (Only ISO-8859-* and few other sets.)

Right.  But that shouldn't matter, because Remind generally ignores
characters in messages.  The only place it actually cared about the
encoding was when trying to centre text in the calendar.  All other
operations simply pass the text through without interpretation.

Regards,

David.