NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

               use Prima::PS::Encodings;

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides code tables for major latin-based encodings, for the glyphs that
       usually provided by every PS-based printer or interpreter.  Prima::PS::Drawable uses these
       encodings when it decides whether the document have to be supplied with a bitmap character
       glyph or a character index, thus relying on PS interpreter capabilities. Latter is
       obviously preferable, but as it's not possible to know beforehand what glyphs are
       supported by PS interpreter, the Latin glyph set was selected as a ground level.

       files
           It's unlikely that users will need to supply their own encodings, however this can be
           accomplished by:

                   use Prima::PS::Encodings;
                   $Prima::PS::Encodings::files{iso8859-5} = 'PS/locale/greek-iso';

       fontspecific
           The only non-latin encoding currently present is 'Specific'.  If any other specific-
           encoded fonts are to be added, the encoding string must be added as a key to
           %fontspecific

       load
           Loads encoding file by given string. Tries to be smart to guess actual file from
           identifier string returned from setlocale(NULL).  If fails, loads default encoding,
           which defines only glyphs from 32 to 126. Special case is 'null' encoding, returns
           array of 256 .notdef's.

       unique
           Returns list of Latin-based encoding string unique keys.