Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:15:03 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters Message-ID: <20141014091503.GA1481@unixarea.DDR.dd> In-Reply-To: <1413274782325-5956648.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <1412530903064-5954561.post@n5.nabble.com> <20141005183517.GA1073@unixarea.DDR.dd> <20141005220221.1ed7df8d@rsbsd.rsb> <1413274782325-5956648.post@n5.nabble.com>
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El día Tuesday, October 14, 2014 a las 01:19:42AM -0700, Beeblebrox escribió: > Enscript does not support UTF-8 formatted text files, so it's not usable in > this case. > > One solution, "is to use paps, instead of Enscript, for converting UTF-8 > encoded text to PostScript." > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/enscript.html > > ... We are using in production environments CUPS in the version 1.4.3; this has a component 'texttops' which supports UTF-8 encoded text (only) and prints UTF-8 nicely on the fly. We have a special enhancement of the used fonts to support most EU languages. HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign
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