Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 6 Jan 2001 21:54:02 +0000 From plate@infotek.dk Sat Jan 06 15:54:01 2001 Return-path: Received: from 213.237.12.137.adsl.vby.worldonline.dk (ache.dk) [213.237.12.137] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14F1Hk-00062E-00; Sat, 06 Jan 2001 15:54:01 -0600 Received: from caney.infotek.dk (caney.infotek.dk [192.168.0.4]) by ache.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF9740C29 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:53:19 +0100 (CET) Received: (from plate@localhost) by caney.infotek.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/JP) id WAA05389 for submit@bugs.debian.org; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:53:18 +0100 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:53:18 +0100 From: John Plate To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: ps2ascii: Wrong conversion Message-ID: <20010106225318.H28694@infotek.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: gs-aladdin Version: 5.50-8 The program ps2ascii may convert some characters not in plain ascii. For example, here are the Danish characters that does not appear in plain ascii. ps2ascii, however can convert them to an acceptable substitute, fx: "å" (LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE) can be written "aa" "æ" (LATIN SMALL LETTER AE) can be written "ae" "ø" (LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE) can be written "oe" The upper case characters should be converted to, respectively, "AA", "AE" and OE. ps2ascii knows to convert LATIN SMALL LETTER AE, but converts, for example, LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE as "a*". That is wrong. Here is a cut from "man iso-8859-1": 305 197 C5 Å LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE 306 198 C6 Æ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE 330 216 D8 Ø LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE 345 229 E5 å LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE 346 230 E6 æ LATIN SMALL LETTER AE 370 248 F8 ø LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE Ciao -- John Plate