Thanks Nikolay. I'll try tohtml. I don't understand the printencoding
situation. When I try to check :set printencoding I get "E519: Option not
supported: printencoding"

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Nikolay Pavlov <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2015-10-04 16:42 GMT+03:00 BC <[email protected]>:
> > When I do :hardcopy my printout is turning characters that appear
> correctly in the editor into gibberish. These are accented characters in
> Spanish words, and also fancy quotation marks and apostrophes (which I
> normally don't use but I was printing material that I'd pasted in from a
> word document) How can I fix this?
>
> See :h 'printencoding': it is only possible if there is an encoding
> file $VIMRUNTIME/print/{encoding}.ps with encoding which contains all
> of the characters you want to print (you must set printencoding option
> to this encoding name before printing) and this directory contains
> only single-byte encodings AFAIK. It is probably better to use either
> formatvim or tohtml Vim plugin to convert your file to something
> highlighted (specifically formatvim supports LaTeX and HTML (and
> anything else, but only if you are willing to write the backend),
> tohtml supports only HTML), and then print the result.
>
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