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
