On 11/14/05, Koblinger Egmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean by multibyte characters?
Hm, my bad habit. What I mean is characters outside iso-8859-* and ASCII range. Basically, bare lpr is pretty useless outside America and Europe. Abel > Of course all the accented letters > are multibyte characters in UTF-8. I created several simple text files in > UTF-8 encoding, containing standard accented letters that are also part of > latin-1 or latin-2 (e.g. e with acute grave, e with acute accent, o with > double acute) as well as euro symbol, low-99 and high-99 quote marks etc., > sent them to the printer with "lpr filename" (with LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 and no > other LC_* variables) and they all got printed correctly. > > What I didn't test is double-width (cjk) characters, combining symbols, > non-printable characters, invalid UTF-8 sequences and other similar more > tricky files. It's easily possible that OOo is better in this respect. > > > > -- > Egmont > > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > > -- Abel Cheung (GPG Key: 0xC67186FF) Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF -------------------------------------------------------------------- * GNOME Hong Kong - http://www.gnome.hk/ * Opensource Application Knowledge Assoc. - http://oaka.org/
