At 2:13 PM -0400 10/2/05, sean wrote: >if I lpr a text file the open single quotes three characters: > >Capital greek gamma ; uppercase C with a cedilla ; lowercase >y with an umlaut > >Close singe quotes are : > >Capital greek gamma ; uppercase C with a cedilla ; uppercase > O with an umluat. > >Open double quotes are: > >capital greek gamma; uppercase C with a cedilla ; english >sterling sign > >Close double quotes are: > >capital greek gamma; uppercase C with a cedilla ; yen sign > >less shows the text correctly. I'm on fc4. > >sean You have some sort of mismatch with the charset (usually language settings). The text file is in Unicode UTF-8, which less is expecting, while lpr or the printer is using some old 8-bit codepage (Microsoft calls it OEM 437). Try to get lpr or the printer onto the same page, accepting UTF-8. Check man lpr and the CUPS documentation it links to; possibly /etc/cups/cupsd.conf has a DefaultCharset set away from the default "utf-8". Or maybe it's some other part of CUPS. Also, whatever made the text file has "smartened" the quotes; being a computer and having no smarts at all, the result is bad even when displayed "properly". ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
