flexfax: Non english chars in faxcover (summary)

[Leonardo Solorzano <leo@cesa.co.cr>]

I found the solution, see below.

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.
> 
> I'll appreciate any help in this matter.
> 
> Thanks,
> leo


I have found the solution, thanks to "Lorenzo M. Catucci"
<lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>, who suggested me to use the program
latex-cover (I'm using make_faxcover instead), because with it there
aren't this kind of problems.

I noted that this program inserts some PostScript instructions in order
to define a different encoding for the font used to display the variable
fields.  This new encoding is appropriate to display the non-English
characters used in most Latin derived languages.

Because I don't use LaTex to generate my cover, I looked around and
found
a clear example of how to do this.  It can be found in:

ftp://wilma.cs.brown.edu/pub/postscript/

with the name ddev.ps (Define Different Encoding Vector)

I just insert this program near the beginning of faxcover.ps with some
minor changes and it worked.

Thanks to all who help me.

leo
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