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Date:      Tue, 5 May 2020 14:49:08 -0400
From:      Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Brother HL-L2340D printer and lpd?
Message-ID:  <2c213d5f-8c18-812e-8770-dd5312b1edf7@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200505180101.GA35751@admin.sibptus.ru>
References:  <20200503171259.GA48627@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200505161952.GA34844@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200505185510.00b622e3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200505180101.GA35751@admin.sibptus.ru>

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On 2020-05-05 14:01, Victor Sudakov wrote:

> A PostScript translator (GhostScript or any other) can be expected to
> "raster" the PS input incorrectly if this input contains encodings it does
> not understand, or glyphs/fonts it is lacking.
> 
> I've seen so many problems with Cyrillic in my life, believe me. I've
> seen PDFs with some Cyrillic glyphs replaced by garbage, and much more
> of such weird stuff than I wish to see.


It would be nice if you could send plain Unicode to a printer. Ideally, 
I guess, either compressed or not -- UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32. I don't 
expect it to happen.



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