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Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
>> I've now read that page. As UTF-8 is generally the preferred
>> charset, I would like to stick to it. Does changing the language,
>> e.g. to de_CH, change umlaut handling? It doesn't seem to, here.
> 
> It does, though.  If you read the page you have learned that setting
> LANG to just a language (de_CH), without a charset (.UTF-8) will set the
> character set to the Windows codepage which is the default ANSI codepage
> on your machine.  In your case this is probably CP1252.  If you want to
> be sure to use UTF-8, then say so:  export LANG=de_CH.UTF-8.

I set this variable (and also LC_CTYPE and LC_ALL), and printing with 
umlauts with bare a2ps works fine now. Thanks!

Niklaus

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