Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?
Quoting rlharris@oplink.net (rlharris@oplink.net):
> > On Thu, September 3, 2015 10:28 am, David Wright wrote:
> >
> > Personally, a2ps has been broken for years because it doesn't handle
> > unicode.
>
> I found in the Debian archive the package "enscript", which appears to
> provide (at least for my needs) the functionality of "a2ps"; and enscript
> handles unicode.
Perhaps you mean something else by "handles unicode".
It doesn't crash, and the frames you have specified don't get bumped
into AFAICT, but a test line of unicode with:
Pound £ Euro € Divide ÷
gives me:
Pound £ Euro â\202¬ Divide ÷
There'a a good testpage to try at
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt
Cheers,
David.
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