On 11/14/05, Vasilis Vasaitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried printing a simple UTF-8 text file with greek text, and the > result was quite inadequate. It managed to get the simple letters from > the Symbol font (I assume), but the accented letters did not get > printed out at all. The result is both ugly and unreadable for the > most part. > > The OOo method, on the other hand, handled it fine.
I have also tried using ooffice -p (2.0); actually it doesn't work well with cjk characters, with characters overlapping each other; but at least all the characters do print successfully. The best one I can find to handle cjk characters well is u2ps, which utilizes pango for font rendering. It is basically a replacement of a2ps that can recognize unicode, with Arabic BiDi support; though kde users may not like it too much :-) Abel > > > 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. > > > -- > Vasilis Vasaitis > "A man is well or woe as he thinks himself so." > > > > -- > 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/ .)��D��-|��ˊ{��v��W�z[ ��b��m�������Yb��h���{���
