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Re: International character set on the LW?

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From: Peter "Arrgh" Korn
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1986 06:34
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In article <329@cernvax.UUCP> asfour@cernvax.UUCP (asfour) writes:
>Can someone please tell me if the laserwriter's character set
>has international characters? German and French characters.

Taken from the "Postscript Language Reference Manual", appendix A
The Times Roman font has circle a; unlaut e; spanish c, !, ?; carret i;
twiddle n; accent o,u; circumflex s; all in upper and lower case.
It also has superscript underlined a and o. In addition, it has all 
the diacritical marks as seperate characters.  The same goes for 
Helvetica and courier.

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From: korn@pavepaws.berkeley.edu (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
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Subject: Re: International character set on the LW?
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Date: Tue, 10-Jun-86 02:34:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 10 02:34:09 1986
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