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/
>
>


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