2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 78514349768..eec6cba623a 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
         ps-print-translation-table.
         (ps-mule-begin-job): Call find-charset-region/string with
         ps-print-translation-table.
+        (ps-mule-printable-p): Return t if CHARSET is ascii or
+        latin-iso8859-1.
 
         * ps-print.el (ps-print-translation-table): New variable.
         (ps-plot-region): Translate characters by
diff --git a/lisp/ps-mule.el b/lisp/ps-mule.el
index 3f66ba2368f..e0e9268c3de 100644
--- a/lisp/ps-mule.el
+++ b/lisp/ps-mule.el
@@ -511,7 +511,10 @@ element of the list."
 
 (defsubst ps-mule-printable-p (charset)
   "Non-nil if characters in CHARSET is printable."
-  (ps-mule-get-font-spec charset 'normal))
+  ;; ASCII and Latin-1 are always printable.
+  (or (eq charset 'ascii)
+      (eq charset 'latin-iso8859-1)
+      (ps-mule-get-font-spec charset 'normal)))
 
 (defconst ps-mule-external-libraries
   '((builtin nil nil