X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B4D9BF2.1080803@towo.net> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:09:54 +0100 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7? References: <20100112145927.264380@gmx.net> <416096c61001122248o6112e132l7e8be69eebf7ad7a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <416096c61001122248o6112e132l7e8be69eebf7ad7a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 13.01.2010 07:48, ext Andy Koppe wrote: > 2010/1/12 Niklaus Kuehnis: > >> I've upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (release version, clean install) and now am unable to print text files with non-ascii characters (i.e. German umlauts) from commandline. >> >> On Cygwin 1.5 printing used to work with a2ps but now all umlauts are replaced by strange characters (i.e. the u with diaeresis appears as a capital A with a tilde and '1/4'). The same happens with lpr. The files print fine using the Windows text editor. >> > The problem is that both a2ps and lpr don't yet support UTF-8. > So the easiest practical solution is to use a Windows tool: notepad /p filename as I also use it for the print function of my editor mined; notepad auto-detects UTF-8 nicely! Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple