10.10.3: Non-English characters

Gri supports both English and some other European-derived languages, permitting text with accents on letters. (It does not support Oriental or other languages at this time.) The accents are supported by using the so-called ISO-Latin-1 font-encoding scheme (also called the ISO-8859-1 scheme), and so, from what the author can gather from his reading, Gri should support various languages from western European, e.g. English, French, Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Portuguese, Italian, Albanian, Rhaeto-Romanic, Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, Scottish, and as well as Afrikaans and Swahili.

Gri uses the ISO-Latin-1 font encodings by default, although the so-called `standard' font-encoding may also be selected with the `Set Font Encoding' command (see Set Font Encoding). For more on font encodings see any book on PostScript fonts ... although the bottom line is that if you are using accented characters in your work, then you probably already know about encodings, and if you don't use accents then you needn't learn about this topic except for the pleasure of learning about other languages.

The method of handling accented characters is very simple. If you can type it, Gri can draw it! It is up to you to determine how to enter the accents. Most text editors permit this, and it seems fair to say that users who need accented characters already know how to type them into their editors.