Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 20:35:18 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters Message-ID: <20141005183517.GA1073@unixarea.DDR.dd> In-Reply-To: <1412530903064-5954561.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <1412530903064-5954561.post@n5.nabble.com>
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El día Sunday, October 05, 2014 a las 10:41:43AM -0700, Beeblebrox escribió: > I have two LPD errors > 1. I see two characters being replaced by strings on the hard copy (the {â} > below is an {a^}). This happens on the first page and not on following > pages. > instead of " I get: â\200\234 (235 for trailing ") > instead of ' I get: â\200\231 > 2. All non-english characters get garbled, on all pages. These are > characters like ç, ö, etc. > > With these two seemingly separate errors, I can't figure out whether this is > an lpr or enscript error. First of all check, what encoding has your text file, UTF-8 or ISO or ...? Then run the file through the filter $ /usr/local/bin/enscript -o - < file > out and check the resulting file 'out'. I do not know enscript, but guess that it should produce Postscript from your input file. I moved the thread by setting Reply-To: to the normal freebsd-question@ list; 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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