On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 16:22 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage 
> on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux 
> and that same file gets printed perfectly when done with a real dos 
> computer?  I have a printer queue set up which allows lpr and lp both to 
> print garbage last time a sighted person took a look dollar signs question 
> marks and very long lines of text were being printed.  This is a grocery 
> list with one item per line.
> 
> 

No , that sounds more like a newline / line carriage issue.  Use 
dos2unix/unix2dos on text files when moving to/from Windows and Linux.

Basicly dos doesn't recognize the newline characters.

PaulNM

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