Re: extending pstricks terminal driver

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>
> I have another question from testing:
>
> Is it supposed to handle UTF8 characters?

Yes, to a certain extent.

> I get mixed results.
> For instance, in processing transparent.dem it handles
> μ (\mu) correctly, but throws an error on σ (\sigma).

That's up to TeX, not up to the terminal. The terminal should not
modify input (at least in my opinion). Users are supposed to either
use the right package in TeX to hadle the encoding or use whatever
character or command that works in TeX.

If one uses XeTeX, UTF-8 should work out-of-the-box. In pdflatex there
are several packages to handle UTF-8, but maybe they work slightly
differently.

Mojca