Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters

From: Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:15:03 +0200
El día Tuesday, October 14, 2014 a las 01:19:42AM -0700, Beeblebrox escribió:

> Enscript does not support UTF-8 formatted text files, so it's not usable in
> this case.
> 
> One solution, "is to use paps, instead of Enscript, for converting UTF-8
> encoded text to PostScript."
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/enscript.html
> 
> ...

We are using in production environments CUPS in the version 1.4.3; this
has a component 'texttops' which supports UTF-8 encoded text (only) and
prints UTF-8 nicely on the fly.

We have a special enhancement of the used fonts to support most EU
languages.

HIH

	matthias

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