Using a cover sheet with national characters.

There were some discussions about using the faxcover sheet with national characters. I got a solution for this from Alain Berger. Probably this may be helpful if you are a little bit more experienced with postscript than me.

For using national characters this piece of postscript code describes an extension of the character code. In the faxcover template this piece of code should be set to the used character set (in this example helvetica).

/IsChar{exch/CharStrings get exch known}bd/MapCh{3 -1 roll/Encoding
get 3 1
roll put}bd/MapDegree{dup 16#b0 exch/degree
IsChar{/degree}{/ring}ifelse MapCh}
bd/MapBB{dup 16#a6 exch/brokenbar IsChar{/brokenbar}{/bar}ifelse
MapCh}bd
/reencode{findfont begin currentdict dup length dict begin{1 index/FID
ne{def}
{pop pop}ifelse}forall/FontName exch def dup length 0 ne{/Encoding
Encoding 256
array copy def 0 exch{dup type/nametype eq{Encoding 2 index 2 index
put pop 1
add}{exch pop}ifelse}forall}if pop currentdict dup end end/FontName
get exch
definefont dup MapDegree
MapBB}bd/LATENC[0/grave/acute/circumflex/tilde/macron /breve/dotaccent/dieresis/ring/cedilla/hungarumlaut/ogonek /caron/dotlessi/fi/fl/Lslash/lslash/Zcaron/zcaron/minus /.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef /.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/space/exclam/quotedbl /numbersign/dollar/percent/ampersand/quotesingle/parenleft /parenright/asterisk/plus/comma/hyphen/period/slash/zero /one/two/three/four/five/six/seven/eight/nine/colon /semicolon/less/equal/greater/question/at /A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I/J/K/L/M/N/O/P/Q/R/S/T/U/V/W/X/Y/Z /bracketleft/backslash/bracketright/asciicircum/ underscore/grave/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/j/k/l/m/n/o/p/q/r/s/t/u /v/w/x/y/z/braceleft/bar/braceright/asciitilde/.notdef /.notdef/.notdef/quotesinglbase/florin/quotedblbase /ellipsis/dagger/daggerdbl/circumflex/perthousand/Scaron /guilsinglleft/OE/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef /quoteleft/quoteright/quotedblleft/quotedblright/bullet /endash/emdash/tilde/trademark/scaron/guilsinglright/oe /.notdef/.notdef/Ydieresis/.notdef/exclamdown/cent/sterling /currency/yen/brokenbar/section/dieresis/copyright /ordfeminine/guillemotleft/logicalnot/hyphen/registered /macron/degree/plusminus/twosuperior/threesuperior/acute/mu /paragraph/periodcentered/cedilla/onesuperior/ordmasculine /guillemotright/onequarter/onehalf/threequarters/questiondown /Agrave/Aacute/Acircumflex/Atilde/Adieresis/Aring/AE /Ccedilla/Egrave/Eacute/Ecircumflex/Edieresis/Igrave/Iacute /Icircumflex/Idieresis/Eth/Ntilde/Ograve/Oacute/Ocircumflex /Otilde/Odieresis/multiply/Oslash/Ugrave/Uacute/Ucircumflex /Udieresis/Yacute/Thorn/germandbls/agrave/aacute/acircumflex /atilde/adieresis/aring/ae/ccedilla/egrave/eacute /ecircumflex/edieresis/igrave/iacute/icircumflex/idieresis /eth/ntilde/ograve/oacute/ocircumflex/otilde/odieresis/divide /oslash/ugrave/uacute/ucircumflex/udieresis/yacute/thorn /ydieresis]def
LATENC /Helvetica-Bold /Helvetica-Bold reencode
LATENC /Helvetica /Helvetica reencode