At 7:01 PM -0400 10/3/05, sean wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: >> 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. >> > >Ok. set ( really uncommented ) cupsd.conf DefaultCharset >utf-8 ( which is supposed to be the default). Restarted cups. I take it that didn't change anything? >> 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". >> > >The text is the ssh_config man page - man ssd_config | lpr. >Same result. Yeah, man bash has the same problem: a "smart" formatting package changes the literal single and double ASCII quotes in the source to something prettier for man to display. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
