John A Stevenson wrote: > After initially being put off by seeing complicated scripts, I've > started to use psmap. I wanted to use the postscript fill patterns to > create a geological map that would reproduce in black and white. It's > really good - the commands are pretty easy and the results look clear > and excellent. > > Anyway. I have digitised some of the main peaks in the region, whose > names contain Icelandic characters. Their names contain Icelandic > characters. Using v.db.select, they appear to have stored correctly. > When I use labels created from the vector, the characters appear as gaps > with d.labels and as nonsense symbols using ps.map. > > I read on the psmap g.manual page about character encoding, but don't > know how it applies to the labels/database. > > Can anyone help?
First, any text passed to ps.map must be in ISO-8859-1; other encodings won't work (although if your PostScript interpreter has suitable fonts, you can fix this by manually editing prolog.ps). If you use FreeType fonts, d.* commands will work with any encoding known to iconv (from the command line, you need to specify the encoding via d.font; I don't recall how the GUI deals with this). -- Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com> _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user