Debian Bug report logs - #878142
muttprint: some non-ASCII characters are silently missing from the generated .ps file

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: muttprint: some non-ASCII characters are silently missing from the generated .ps file

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:43:53 +0200

Package: muttprint
Version: 0.73-8
Severity: important

When I used muttprint (with print to file, for checking) on a mail
with δ and ε characters, these characters were silently missing
from the generated .ps file.

With debug output, I can see errors:

! Undefined control sequence.
\u-default-949 #1->\textepsilon 

! Undefined control sequence.
\u-default-948 #1->\textdelta 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages muttprint depends on:
ii  libtext-iconv-perl         1.7-5+b6
ii  perl                       5.26.0-8
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended  2017.20171004-1
ii  texlive-latex-extra        2017.20171004-1
ii  texlive-latex-recommended  2017.20171004-1

Versions of packages muttprint recommends:
ii  emacs24-lucid [mail-reader]  24.5+1-11+local2
ii  emacs25 [mail-reader]        25.2+1-6
ii  evolution [mail-reader]      3.26.1-1
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
ii  mailutils [mail-reader]      1:3.2-1
ii  mutt [mail-reader]           1.8.3+neomutt20170609-2+b1

Versions of packages muttprint suggests:
pn  compface                         <none>
ii  dialog                           1.3-20160828-2
ii  emacs24-lucid [news-reader]      24.5+1-11+local2
ii  emacs25 [news-reader]            25.2+1-6
ii  imagemagick                      8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16
ii  imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick]  8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16
ii  lynx [news-reader]               2.8.9dev16-1
ii  muttprint-manual                 0.73-8
pn  ospics                           <none>
ii  psutils                          1.17.dfsg-4
ii  texlive-fonts-extra              2017.20171004-1
ii  tin [news-reader]                1:2.4.1-1

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: muttprint: some non-ASCII characters are silently missing from the generated .ps file

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:55:36 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

On 2017-10-10 13:43:53 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> When I used muttprint (with print to file, for checking) on a mail
> with δ and ε characters, these characters were silently missing
> from the generated .ps file.

I think that the easiest solution would be to use xelatex and
a font that the required characters (DejaVu Sans Mono seems one
of the most complete fonts).

I've attached a patch that does this (mainly for testing), but
I haven't tried in non-UTF8 locales (I suppose that the input
should be converted to UTF8 or \XeTeXinputencoding should be
used) and the font is hardcoded in the patch.

-- 
Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>
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Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

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