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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 like it works initially, nano will internally think
> that you've entered two characters when you enter an umlaut. Hence
> things get wonky when you try to edit them.
>   
So that may be why I get some strange behavior of nano (disappearing 
letters and such) when editing files with umlauts.

Thanks again!
Niklaus

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