[Remind-Fans] Print calendar

Jostein Berntsen jbernts at broadpark.no
Tue Jun 22 11:40:21 EDT 2010


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.


Jostein





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