The program http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/hpp.c is a quite simple but nice tool to print a fixed-width plaintext file on a HP LaserJet or DeskJet using the built-in PCL fonts. The encoding of the plaintext file is determined by the locale, so for instance write something like LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 hpp filename.txt | lpr -Pljet to print a UTF-8 file. "hpp" switches automatically between several HP fonts to cover a broader repertoire than any 8-bit font could provide. It covers ISO 8859-1,2,9, CP437, CP850, CP1252, Mac Roman, PostScript Standard, PostScript Symbol, and a few more things. Unavailable characters and illegal multi-byte sequences are represented by different italic question marks. The program is written in portable standard ISO C 99. Enjoy ... Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/
