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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:52:37 +0100
From: Thomas Wolff <towo AT towo DOT net>
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Subject: Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?
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Some additional notes on this:
> 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!
1. notepad /p prints to your default printer
2. for font configuration, invoke notepad manually;
     if you want a fixed-width font for text printing, these are 
recommendable for a good coverage of Unicode: Lucida Console, Courier 
New, Andale Mono, Everson Mono
     configure 10 pt font size to make sure 80 characters fit on a line, 
11 pt for 72 characters
3. can somebody check/confirm this still works on Vista, please?

Thanks
Thomas

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