Comment 2 for bug 153606

... and probably will never be.

[Side note: I'm the author of the internationalisation code in a2ps.]

The assumption that a byte is a glyph runs pretty deep throughout
a2ps. A2ps does a lot of stuff in PostScript (PS) code, and all of
that would need to be redesigned.

I think that rewriting a2ps from scratch would be easier than adapting
it for Unicode. I've been experimenting with that, and you can find
the results as Cedilla on

  http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/cedilla/

Cedilla currently has way fewer features than a2ps. Please let me
know which features of a2ps that you use are missing in Cedilla, and
I'll see if they can be implemented easily.

[Masayuki-san: would you be interested in packaging Cedilla for
Debian? It compiles out-of-the box.]

                                        Juliusz Chroboczek