On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:44:31PM -0400, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Tuesday, September 5 at 10:15 PM, quoth Bernhard Walle: > > I think enscript is not utf-8 capable. So it's unusable on a modern > > Linux system. > > Lack of utf-8 support hardly makes it *unusable*. Plenty of things are > merely ascii text, and plenty of people can't handle anything more > complicated anyway. Oh, come on Kyle, that's not really true. There are few systems in existence today which can't handle at least most of the Latin-based ISO standard character sets. > For example, I used to send utf-8 encoded email to this mailing list, > but I got pounced on by some rather self-righteous people who > explained that utf-8 support is hardly the standard. I may be mistaken, but I don't think anyone had any objection to your use of UTF-8... It was your desire to use characters which don't exist in the vast majority of the world's character sets which was more... er... troublesome. UTF-8 *is* the standard... or at least *a* standard. Trouble is not everyone likes to comply to standards, and there is still a lot of crufty software out there. We'll get there. Maybe 2 more years. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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