Re: why are single quotes printed as Gamma C cedilla O umlaut?

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Tony Nelson wrote:
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?



Right. I should have been clearer.


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.


But if utf-8 can't display the charcter set, what can?

sean


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