Date: 07 Mar 1998 15:19:33 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: stuart henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> Subject: Re: ps2pdf (was: newbies mailing list) Message-ID: <p1i1zwevb0q.fsf@panke.panke.de> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:20:52 %2B1030 References: <199803030441.VAA11558@const.> <34FBE0CB.C1697F2D@internationalschool.co.uk> <19980304102052.13296@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: > 2. The ASCII (latin1) version of the handbook doesn't contain any > high-bit-set characters. Wrong. handbook.latin1 contain 8 bit characters, e.g., `Søren'. > The only unusual character it contains > is a ^H (backspace), which even on DOS impact printers will create > a bolder impression. In UNIX, you can (and I do) remove it with > sed 's:.^H::g'. better: $ col -b < handbook.latin1 > /tmp/handbook.latin1.stripped -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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