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Date:      Wed, 6 May 2020 07:16:59 +0100
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Brother HL-L2340D printer and lpd?
Message-ID:  <20200506071659.8730d1d68f9d47e4407790f3@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <20200506015935.GA56526@admin.sibptus.ru>
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On Wed, 6 May 2020 08:59:35 +0700
Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:

> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > a2ps from packages is broken:
> > > 
> > > $ a2ps /etc/rc.conf
> > > a2ps: unknown medium `libpaper'
> > 
> > 	I think you'll find installing the libpaper package will fix
> > that -
> 
> It's installed: 
> 
> $ a2ps
> a2ps: unknown medium `libpaper'
> $ pkg info -o libpaper
> libpaper-1.1.24.4              print/libpaper
> 
> > I use a2ps regularly.
> 
> Does it handle UTF-8 (Cyrillic) text? If it does not, is there any sense
> to prefer it over enscript?

	No, I don't think there are strong reasons to prefer either over
the other.

	Given that problem it might be worth trying to see if this
<https://github.com/arsv/u2ps>; ports easily - it claims to be something like
a2ps for unicode.

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