[debian-devel:10801] Re: Bug#41570: Can not handle kanji font PS

[Taketoshi Sano <xlj06203@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi. 

I have managed to tackle this very important, complex and huge software,
named "ghostscript" these two days.

> In <19990805093800.61210@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
>  at Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 09:38:00 +0200,
>   on Subject: Re: Bug#41570: Can not handle kanji font PS,
>    Marco Pistore <pistore@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> pistore> Hi,
> pistore> 
> pistore> i have beginned to work on the patch, however it is taking more time
> pistore> than expected. The patch is quite complex and some of the changes do
> pistore> not affect only japanese users: for instance, some of the page sizes
> pistore> in gs_statd.ps have been changed, apparently from the ISO standard to
> pistore> JIS (which i do not know). 

I have splitted the diff file included in gs510j49.tar.bz2, and do screening
splitted-patches into used, modified and not used.

I have made the result of this screening in the form of the addition for
the current gs_5.10-2, kanji-patch.tgz.

You can test it by tar -xvzf kanji-patch.tgz in the gs-5.10 directory.
That tar file contains the directories and files under ./contrib/kanji/

There is diff.debian.rules in ./contrib/kanji/, which is the required modification
for debian/rules to use this enhancement.

I will upload this kanji-patch.tgz into http://www.debian.org/~sano/
 (i.e. my $HOME/public_html), but I have not done such a thing yet,
so I will also upload the experimental package which includes this modification
(gs_5.10-2.0.vflib.2) into experimental-jp on Debian JP as a kind of insurance.

GNU Ghostscript is so much important for users who use Debian on document writing.
It is very pity that Debian's gs (and of course, upstream's gs) has lack of support 
for Japanese characters. Some part of this status comes from us, Japanese people,
ourself, but I wish to improve this situation.

So please help us to implement Japanese support in gs package of Debian.

I have not done about modification to use some printer drivers included in
original gs510j49 for many popular printers in Japan. It is left as TODOs.
I hope that I can work at this before the release date, but I have not promise
about it. So I hope anyone in Debian JP (or elsewhere) will work at this point
using your gs package and my experimental package as a base for modification.

Thanks to kind and generous maintainers, and brave and hard-working hackers!

-- 
  Taketoshi Sano: <sano@debian.org>,<sano@debian.or.jp>,<kgh12351@xxxxxxxxxxx>