Re: Printing Arabic UTF-8 text

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 03:05:12PM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> Salam all...
> 
> We have a couple of command-line printing options available now :-)
> 
> 1. I've been fortune enough to patch the latest development version
>    of txtbdf2ps.pl in order to include both bidi and Arabic shaping.
> 
>      http://oldrus-ispell.sourceforge.net/txtbdf2ps.html

>    $ lpr output.ps
> 

Cool stuff ;) Unfortunately I don't have a printer, but 'gv' seems to like
it -- beautiful ;) 

> 
> Lastly, I would like to note that there aren't that many options out there
> for printing UTF-8 encoded text from the command-line.  'a2ps' surprisingly

Are 'a2ps' lists active (I remember someone noting otherwise). How can we
get them involved? Can we start a channel of communication and make it
Cc'd to 'developer' so we are all onboard?

later
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