[Remind-Fans] Big announcement: Remind 3.4.0 Beta 1!

[Dianne Skoll]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce that Remind 3.4.0 Beta 1 is available for testing.
This release significantly improves Remind's handling of UTF text.
It also ships with a brand-new rem2pdf back-end that produces PDF output.
Unlike rem2ps, rem2pdf can handle the full Unicode character set.

Rem2pdf uses Cairo and Pango to render the calendars and is written in
Perl.  As a result, you will require the Cairo and Pango Perl modules
to be installed.

This release also significantly improves Remind's support for non-English
languages, allowing you to set month and weekday names in calendars
to whatever you like, even if Remind has not been compiled with support
for your language.

Tar: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.04.00-BETA-1.tar.gz
GPG: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-03.03.12.tar.gz.sig

Release notes follow.

Regards,

Dianne.

CHANGES TO REMIND

* VERSION 3.4 Patch 0 - 2022-??-??

- MAJOR CHANGE: Remind and its helpers (except for rem2ps) fully support
  UTF-8.  If your system locale is a UTF-8 locale and your terminal
  can handle UTF-8 encoding, you can enjoy full Unicode support in Remind.

- NEW FEATURE: Added a rem2pdf Remind-to-PDF converter.  It can handle
  the full UTF-8 character set and features a new PANGO special reminder
  type that lets you format the text in the PDF calendar (by changing the
  font size, color, underlining, etc.)

  rem2pdf requires the Pango and Cairo Perl modules.  On Debian or
  Debian-derived systems, these may be installed with:

      apt install libpango-perl libcairo-perl

- NEW FEATURE: remind:  New system variables $Sunday through $Saturday
  and $January through $December let you set weekday and month names
  to whatever you like, permitting you to produce calendars in your
  local language, even if it's not one of the languages Remind supports
  by default.

- NEW FEATURE: tkremind: If rem2pdf installed, TkRemind offers you the
  choice of PDF or PostScript output in the Print dialog.

- BUG FIX: Properly support formatting of double-wide characters in the
  terminal mode "remind -c" calendar.

- IMPROVEMENT: All localized languages now use UTF-8 exclusively.
  Support for old character encodings like ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2
  has been dropped since modern UNIXes have pretty much standardized
  on UTF-8.

- CHANGE: remind: Non-English versions of remind *no longer* accept
  non-English month- and weekday-names in trigger specifications.  This
  was a misfeature.  NOTE INCOMPATIBILITY.

* VERSION 3.3 Patch 12 - 2022-01-24
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