Andy Koppe schrieb:
One workaround is to convert the file manually using iconv, e.g.:
$ iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1 bla.txt | a2ps -o bla.ps
This works ok. Thanks! I will try to make an alias for it.
Please note that 'nano' also doesn't support UTF-8 yet. While entering
characters looks
Thomas Wolff schrieb:
So the easiest practical solution is to use a Windows tool:
notepad /p filename
This works, too. Thanks!
Niklaus
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Thomas Wolff schrieb:
1. notepad /p prints to your default printer
2. for font configuration, invoke notepad manually;
if you want a fixed-width font for text printing, these are
recommendable for a good coverage of Unicode: Lucida Console, Courier
New, Andale Mono, Everson Mono
Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
On Jan 12 15:59, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
Hi,
I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am
unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German
umlauts) from commandline.
Did you read the User's Guide, especially
Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
1. notepad /p prints to your default printer
...
Yes, this printing command still works in Vista, and also the font
switching procedure.
Thanks for checking.
Please note that 'nano' also doesn't support UTF-8 yet. ...
So that may be why I get some strange behavior of
On Jan 15 11:08, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
On Jan 12 15:59, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
Hi,
I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am
unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German
umlauts) from commandline.
Did you
On Jan 15 11:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 15 11:08, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html
I've now read that page. As UTF-8 is generally the preferred
charset, I would like to stick to it. Does changing the language,
Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
... As UTF-8 is generally the preferred charset, I would like to stick
to it. Does changing the language, e.g. to de_CH, change umlaut
handling? It doesn't seem to, here.
That depends...
If you just have LANG in your environment to indicate the UTF-8
character set, or
Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
I've now read that page. As UTF-8 is generally the preferred
charset, I would like to stick to it. Does changing the language,
e.g. to de_CH, change umlaut handling? It doesn't seem to, here.
It does, though. If you read the page you have learned that setting
LANG to
2010/1/15 Niklaus Kuehnis:
If you want to
be sure to use UTF-8, then say so: export LANG=de_CH.UTF-8.
I set this variable (and also LC_CTYPE and LC_ALL), and printing with
umlauts with bare a2ps works fine now. Thanks!
I can't confirm that. Sure you were printing a UTF-8 file there?
Andy
Andy Koppe schrieb:
2010/1/15 Niklaus Kuehnis:
If you want to
be sure to use UTF-8, then say so: export LANG=de_CH.UTF-8.
I set this variable (and also LC_CTYPE and LC_ALL), and printing with
umlauts with bare a2ps works fine now. Thanks!
I can't confirm that. Sure you were printing a UTF-8
On 13.01.2010 07:48, ext Andy Koppe wrote:
2010/1/12 Niklaus Kuehnis:
I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am unable
to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German umlauts) from
commandline.
On Cygwin 1.5 printing used to work with a2ps but now
Some additional notes on this:
On 13.01.2010 07:48, ext Andy Koppe wrote:
2010/1/12 Niklaus Kuehnis:
I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now
am unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German
umlauts) from commandline.
On Cygwin 1.5 printing
On Jan 12 15:59, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
Hi,
I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am
unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German umlauts)
from commandline.
Did you read the User's Guide, especially
://old.nabble.com/How-to-print-textfiles-in-Cygwin-1.7--tp27128849p27137998.html
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2010/1/12 Niklaus Kuehnis:
I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am
unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German umlauts)
from commandline.
On Cygwin 1.5 printing used to work with a2ps but now all umlauts are
replaced by strange
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