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Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?
- From: rmpbklyn <rmaniac at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:15:01 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: How to print textfiles in Cygwin 1.7?
- References: <20100112145927.264380@gmx.net>
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
or the like
Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Is there an alternative to a2ps or a fix/workaround?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Niklaus
>
> $ a2ps --version
> GNU a2ps 4.13
>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.0 machinename 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin
>
> $ mintty --version
> mintty 0.5.6
>
> $ nano --version
> GNU nano Version 2.0.9 (compiliert um 13:11:06, Oct 19 2008)
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