[cl-typesetting-devel] Unicode?

[Marc Battyani]

Peter Seibel wrote:

[...]
> Anyway, after some more investigation, I think the problem goes much
> deeper than just a font metric issue. I looked at the PDF file
> generated when I made the text was (format nil "A~cB" (code-char
> #x2014). In the PDF there's a:
>
>   (A?B) Tj
>
> where the ? is actually the character #x14, i.e. the bottom byte of
> the #x2014 character. It conceivable that through some proper
> manipulation of external-formats somewhere I could fix that but it
> wouldn't help because, as far as I understand the PDF spec, (...)
> strings can only contain ASCII characters. There is obviously some way
> to include Unicode text (uncoded in UTF-16BE, I believe) in PDFs but
> it's much more involved than just throwing some text between ()'s. I
> think the relevant sections of the PDF spec may be 5.6 Composite Fonts
> and following.
I'm just catching up. So do you still have the problem? If that's the
case, I will have a look at it this WE.

Marc