Re: flexfax: Non english chars in faxcover

[Ulrich Eckhardt <Ulrich.Eckhardt@transcom.de>]

Leonardo Solorzano wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I have used hylafax for a long time, but now I'm promoting it's use as a
> company wide tool, thanks to the WHFC front end.
> 
> However, I have an inconvenience.  Because our language is Spanish, we
> need to print the following Spanish chars:
> 
> ��������
> 
> (I know not all mailers can display correctly this chars, I apology)
> 
> The problem is because the faxcover program pass the chars in its
> arguments unmodified to the postscript file it generates, but in order
> to be correctly displayed, the postscript file need to represent these
> special chars in octal format, like \363 for � (o acute) for example.
> This is what I think is the problem.
> 
> Perhaps some Postscript procedure, or some changes in the faxcover
> program, can correct the problem.

Hi,

WHFC currently does not convert national characters to the correct
postscript code, so it's not possible to use the special characters.

Uli
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