Re: utf8 and postscript

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Friday 04 January 2008 13:48, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > Sorry, I've lost track: what is the current state of UTF-8 support 
> > in the postscript terminal supposed to be?  I sort of thought that 
> > "set encoding utf8" was working for term post, but it seems not.
> 
> It works here. But you need to use a compatible font file...

But don't we have one by default? (Namely, Helvetica or a clone 
thereof).

> Note that in this [successful UTF-8 encoded] case it was 
> necessary to use the "adobeglyphnames" option.

Thanks for the hint!  I find that if I take my original UTF-8 
encoded Polish graph, and put

  set encoding utf8
  set term post eps color adobeglyphnames

at the top, it then works fine.

But this makes me wonder: if the default alternative to 
"adobeglyphnames" doesn't work with the default postscript font, 
why is adobeglyphnames not the default?

Allin Cottrell