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
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