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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: dot matrix printer unicode question
From:       Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson () cox ! net>
Date:       2009-07-31 21:22:00
Message-ID: 4A736078.5030006 () cox ! net
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On 2009-07-31 16:01, PaulNM wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 16:22 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 
>> Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage 
>> on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux 
>> and that same file gets printed perfectly when done with a real dos 
>> computer?  I have a printer queue set up which allows lpr and lp both to 
>> print garbage last time a sighted person took a look dollar signs question 
>> marks and very long lines of text were being printed.  This is a grocery 
>> list with one item per line.
>>
>>
> 
> No , that sounds more like a newline / line carriage issue. Use
 > dos2unix/unix2dos on text files when moving to/from Windows and
 > Linux.

Good point.

> Basicly dos doesn't recognize the newline characters.

It does, but only as it's ASCII mnemonic of LF.

-- 
Scooty Puff, Sr
The Doom-Bringer


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