ps-print does not print and report correctly

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

Having an ISO Latin-15 encoded buffer that goes like this:

        ;;; -*- mode: Text; coding: iso-8859-15; -*-
        ;
        ;       Time-stamp: <2005-07-15 13:12:08 pete>
        ;
        ;   Western European Glyphs with € (Latin 9, Latin 0)
        ;
        ;   oct   dec   hex    UCS2    UTF-8
        ;=====================================
          = 240 = 160 = A0 = U+00A0 =    C2 A0 : NO-BREAK SPACE
        ¡ = 241 = 161 = A1 = U+00A1 =    C2 A1 : INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
        ¢ = 242 = 162 = A2 = U+00A2 =    C2 A2 : CENT SIGN
        £ = 243 = 163 = A3 = U+00A3 =    C2 A3 : POUND SIGN
        € = 244 = 164 = A4 = U+20AC = E2 82 AC : EURO SIGN
        ¥ = 245 = 165 = A5 = U+00A5 =    C2 A5 : YEN SIGN
	Š = 246 = 166 = A6 = U+0160 =    C5 A0 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH 
CARON
        § = 247 = 167 = A7 = U+00A7 =    C2 A7 : SECTION SIGN

I get this *Warning* message when I choose 'PostScript Print Buffer' 
from the File menu:

        These characters in the buffer can't be printed:
         €,  , ¡, ¢, £, €, ¥, Š, §, š, ©, ª, «, ¬, ­, and more...
        Click them to jump to the buffer position,
        or C-u C-x = will give information about them.

This is not true, because this is put into PS file:

        LHL
        /f0 F
        (\240) S
        /f0 F
        ( = 240 = 160 = A0 = U+00A0 =    C2 A0 : NO-BREAK SPACE) S
        LHL
        /f0 F
        (\241) S
        /f0 F
        ( = 241 = 161 = A1 = U+00A1 =    C2 A1 : INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK) S
        LHL
        /f0 F
        (\242) S
        /f0 F
        ( = 242 = 162 = A2 = U+00A2 =    C2 A2 : CENT SIGN) S
        LHL
        /f0 F
        (\243) S
        /f0 F
        ( = 243 = 163 = A3 = U+00A3 =    C2 A3 : POUND SIGN) S
        LHL
        1 1 SB
        /f0 F
        ( = 244 = 164 = A4 = U+20AC = E2 82 AC : EURO SIGN) S
        LHL
        /f0 F
        (\245) S
        /f0 F
        ( = 245 = 165 = A5 = U+00A5 =    C2 A5 : YEN SIGN) S

As you can see only € is censored away, although it's hard to image 
that there is still some PostScript printer around that can't print €. 
Other cases of censorship are:

        LHL
        1 1 SB
        /f0 F
	( = 246 = 166 = A6 = U+0160 =    C5 A0 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH 
CARON) S
        LHL
        1 1 SB
        /f0 F
	( = 250 = 168 = A8 = U+0161 =    C5 A1 : LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH 
CARON) S
        LHL
        1 1 SB
        /f0 F
	( = 264 = 180 = B4 = U+017D =    C5 BD : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH 
CARON) S
        LHL
        1 1 SB
        /f0 F
	( = 270 = 184 = B8 = U+017E =    C5 BE : LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH 
CARON) S
        LHL
        1 1 SB
        /f0 F
        ( = 274 = 188 = BC = U+0152 =    C5 92 : LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE) S
        LHL
        1 1 SB
        /f0 F
        ( = 275 = 189 = BD = U+0153 =    C5 93 : LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE) S
        LHL
        1 1 SB
        /f0 F
	( = 276 = 190 = BE = U+0178 =    C5 B8 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH 
DIAERESIS) S

It is censorship because it disables the user to further process the PS 
code to make it completely printable, for example by using a TrueType 
font with all the missing glyphs.



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 of 2005-09-27 on Latsche.local
X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40300000
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'--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' 
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  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
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  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t


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Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

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