Bug 66393

Summary:	"a2ps -X koi8-r" prints empty space instead of the ~ (tilde) symbol
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	a2ps	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2002-06-09 22:31:23 UTC

Reproducible: always.

To reproduce : create an arbitrary tetx file containing a ~ symbol and run a2ps
on it with -X koi8-r option.

Expected: some ~-like symbol in the output
Actual: empty space instead of it.

As far as I understand it, the problem comes from the fact that
/usr/share/a2ps/encoding/koi8.edf specify using "tilde" for ~ while the fonts
that are used for Cyrillics output only have "asciitilde", but no "tilde". And
indeed, replacing "tilde" with "asciitilde" in koi8.edf solves the problem,
although I have no idea whether this is a reasonable solution or an ugly hack...

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2002-06-21 13:30:41 UTC

Looks reasonable to me.  Fixed in a2ps-4.13b-22.  Thanks.