X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_FAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B502CC0.7020305@gmx-topmail.de> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:52:16 +0100 From: Niklaus Kuehnis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) 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 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 -- 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