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NAME

6       Prima::PS::Encodings -  manage latin-based encodings
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SYNOPSIS

9               use Prima::PS::Encodings;
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DESCRIPTION

12       This module provides code tables for major latin-based encodings, for
13       the glyphs that usually provided by every PS-based printer or
14       interpreter.  Prima::PS::Drawable uses these encodings when it decides
15       whether the document have to be supplied with a bitmap character glyph
16       or a character index, thus relying on PS interpreter capabilities.
17       Latter is obviously preferable, but as it's not possible to know
18       beforehand what glyphs are supported by PS interpreter, the Latin glyph
19       set was selected as a ground level.
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21       exists $encoding
22           Returns whether $encoding exists in the list of internal list of
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25       files
26           It's unlikely that users will need to supply their own encodings,
27           however this can be accomplished by:
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29                   use Prima::PS::Encodings;
30                   $Prima::PS::Encodings::files{iso8859-5} = 'PS/locale/greek-iso';
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32       fontspecific
33           The only non-latin encoding currently present is 'Specific'.  If
34           any other specific-encoded fonts are to be added, the encoding
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37       load
38           Loads encoding file by given string. Tries to be smart to guess
39           actual file from identifier string returned from setlocale(NULL).
40           If fails, loads default encoding, which defines only glyphs from 32
41           to 126. Special case is 'null' encoding, returns array of 256
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45           Returns list of Latin-based encoding string unique keys.
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