Umlauts in PostScript

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From: Simon_Heimbach
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:48

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Hello everybody,

I'm now fussing around with german umlauts (eg. �,�,�) in PostScript for a couple of time and still couldn't get through one of these massive documentation from Adobe and private users. I've programmed a printer-spooler for Unix that takes uses of the lpr-command. The Postscript-file is generated automatically by my programme.
Everything works perfectly apart from the umlauts which just appear as a space. I read a document that proposed hex-codes (eg "�"="\216") but that doesn't work either.
Now, I'm not sure if I have to embed my own font to the file (how do I do that?) or if I can directly access the extendet Unicode Latin Codes.
Does anyone have experiences or documentation about that problem?
Many thanks in advance
Simon

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