[metapost] Umlaute in labels

[Michail Vidiassov]

Dear All,

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Stephan Hennig wrote:

> Klaus Jantzen schrieb:
>
>> how can I get umlate in to a label?
>
> But let's stick to the old behaviour.  It is possible to use 8 bit
> encoded characters, both, (i) with ordinary MetaPost strings or (ii) in
> TeX generated text labels.
>
> (i) With this method input encoding has to match output encoding of the
> font used.
>

But output encoding can be changed by a bunch of "special"s with necessary 
postscript code (easy modification of a font encoding file, say from 
fontname). It works only for 8-bit and may be not so useful with 
upcoming metapost, where you may find a TeX font with necessary encoding.

        Sincerely, Michail