Description of problem: a2ps doesn't seem to honor the --encoding=utf-8 option. Since all my files are encoded using UTF-8 (after all, that's the default in all versions of Fedora), I would like to be able to print a file that contains utf-8-encoded non-ascii characters (i.e. code point > 128). But using the -X utf-8 option or not using that option doesn't make a difference in the output: the "latin small letter a with diaeresis" I'm trying to print comes out as "latin capital letter A with tilde" plus "currency sign", which happen to be the ISO-8859-1 characters that correspond to the UTF-8 encoding. I have also tried changing the option in the file /etc/a2ps-site.cfg, but that didn't help either. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): a2ps-4.13b-65.fc7.i386 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Produce a plain text file containing e.g. a letter "ä", encoded using UTF-8 2. a2ps --encoding=utf-8 file-from-step-1 3. Alternatively: a2ps --encoding=utf-8 -o file.ps file-from-step-1; then view file.ps using evince or some such program. Actual results: A piece of paper containing "ä". Expected results: A piece of paper containing "ä" Additional info: Also, since the default encoding on Fedora 7 is UTF-8, the default for a2ps should also be UTF-8 and not ISO-8859-1.
When I look at this report with Firefox, I need to set the page encoding to ISO-8859-1 explicitly to get the effect I meant.
a2ps doesn't have any UTF-8 support. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71496 ***