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  3. March 2002

Re: font-encoding in scs2pdf

James Rich <james@eaerich.com> writes:

> How is this different than the current setup, then?  Doesn't
> tn5250_char_map_new() already do this?  Or are you referring to the
> differences between, say MacRomanEncoding and WinAnsiEncoding?

The example I gave put the EBCDIC data from the AS/400 in the PDF
stream, instead of translating it into ISO-8859-1.  There's not much
point in doing this for CCSID 37, or 273 for Germany, or others that
convert to ISO-8859-1, but I thought it was quite cool that PDF could
do this.

For AS/400 CCSIDs that map to ISO-8859-2 or ISO-8859-15 instead, the
PDF _will_ need to specify a different font encoding.  All the
ISO-8859-15 glyphs are at least present in the standard PDF fonts.
Unfortunately some of the characters in CCSID 870 / ISO-8859-2, for
Eastern European languagues, are not.

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