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Subject: Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?
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try using pdf creator and make it shared,
then you can use it
have you tested printing a plain text from command shell
eg my.txt > lpt1=20=20
or the like

Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I'm using mintty on Windows Vista Business and nano to produce the files.
> Files with umlauts are recognized as UTF-8 by the file command.
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> Is there an alternative to a2ps or a fix/workaround?
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Niklaus
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> $ a2ps --version
> GNU a2ps 4.13
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> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.0 machinename 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin
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> $ mintty --version
> mintty 0.5.6
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> $ nano --version
> GNU nano Version 2.0.9 (compiliert um 13:11:06, Oct 19 2008)
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