Re: Text printing with Openoffice

[Koblinger Egmont <egmont@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:52:23AM +0800, Abel Cheung wrote:

> On 11/13/05, Koblinger Egmont <egmont@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > fancy, just the good old fixed-width fonts with 80 columns, but the accented
> > (NFC) letters are okay.
> 
> ... While all multibyte characters become junk. (since 2001)

What do you mean by multibyte characters? Of course all the accented letters
are multibyte characters in UTF-8. I created several simple text files in
UTF-8 encoding, containing standard accented letters that are also part of
latin-1 or latin-2 (e.g. e with acute grave, e with acute accent, o with
double acute) as well as euro symbol, low-99 and high-99 quote marks etc.,
sent them to the printer with "lpr filename" (with LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 and no
other LC_* variables) and they all got printed correctly.

What I didn't test is double-width (cjk) characters, combining symbols,
non-printable characters, invalid UTF-8 sequences and other similar more
tricky files. It's easily possible that OOo is better in this respect.



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Egmont

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