Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:19:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters Message-ID: <1413274782325-5956648.post@n5.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <20141005220221.1ed7df8d@rsbsd.rsb> References: <1412530903064-5954561.post@n5.nabble.com> <20141005183517.GA1073@unixarea.DDR.dd> <20141005220221.1ed7df8d@rsbsd.rsb>
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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 Another (which I prefer) solution is to send to printer like this (with "n" being the 8859 extension number): $ iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-n file-UTF8.txt | enscript --encoding=8859n | lpr -P<printer> Thanks to Martin Paredes for this suggestion. Perhaps this information or the appropriate enscript conversion code for psif could be included in the Handbook (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/printing-lpd.html 10.5.3.4 / 10.5.3.5)? Regards. ----- FreeBSD-11-current_amd64_root-on-zfs_RadeonKMS -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/printing-text-file-with-LPD-non-printable-characters-tp5954561p5956648.html Sent from the freebsd-current mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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