Hi Martin,

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:02:35AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-11 23:35]:
> > It does. I assume it is a PS printer, so enscript is used for text
> > handling. a2ps is unfortunately not Unicode-ready either (Bug #180236)
> 
> Sorry, when I filed the bug I was fairly busy so I didn't investigate
> how the text is printed exactly.  I assumed it might make us of a
> program, such as enscript.

This is correct.

> I'll see what the status of UTF-8 in enscript is.

It does not supprt it (Bug 229595:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229595)

> I'm aware that a2ps doesn't support it, and I think the
> program isn't maintained anymore, or at least not very actively.

This is what I had in mind too, but I haven't verified it.

> What I found out in the meantime is that there's a program called
> uniprint which handles it.

Interesting. This is useful information. I have not heard about it.

> I also have some information from Markus Kuhn (UTF-8 Linux guru) about
> other tools which supports unicode printing and I'll forward this info
> later.

Thanks a lot,
  David


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