bug#7786: 23.2; Encoding of PostScript files

[Peter Dyballa]

> Am 20.10.2021 um 07:45 schrieb Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> 
>> Can't there be a default binding of ISOLatin1Encoding to files with
>> extension .ps or that are otherwise found or set to be PostScript
>> files?
> 
> None of the .ps files we've found have been in ISOLatin1Encoding, so I'm
> not sure I understand what you mean?

Isn't this the default encoding of a PostScript (text) file using standard 
encoded fonts?

The situation can be different once you re-encode the font, then the PS file's 
text encoding has to follow. If the font is re-encoded in ISO Latin-1 then the 
PS code has to use it too. Same for every other 8-bit font re-encoding (I have 
no idea how it works with CJK). The characters that are allowed to be used as 
PostScript code are taken from US-ASCII. So the code is independent from the 
text encoding. Care has to be taken when texts in an 8-bit encoding should be 
output, or printed, usually enclosed in parentheses. The text encoding has to 
match the font encoding, or the font encoding (of the user-defined font) has to 
be prepared for the text encoding to be used below.

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  Pete

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