Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
>
> Bien wrote on 2001-04-16 18:06 UTC:
> > Hi all !
> > I have a UTF-8 text file , Can I print it under Linux (without yudit or
> > uniprint)
>
> This depends a lot on what character repertoire you want to print out.
> Unfortunately, there is no really good and simple solution available
> yet that I know of.
>
> - We don't know yet of any printer that accepts UTF-8 plaintext
> directly (like HPs do e.g. with various 8-bit encodings).
> Perhaps it is time to make such a suggestion to various printer
> firmware developers, but they might not be too interested, as 99%
> of all printing is done today anyway via some device driver in
> the OS and not any more by dumping plaintext files onto the printer.
> The fonts build into printers today usually cover only a tiny part
> of UCS anyway (mostly European ISO 8859 and CPs).
>
Forget printer fonts. These days the only sane way is to treat
printers either as PostScript or raster devices.
-hpa
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