Re: Help with print encoding

On 14/02/2017 16:43, Mike Williams wrote:
> On 14/02/2017 07:25, Lifepillar wrote:
>> On 13/02/2017 18:08, Mike Williams wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Have you tried setting printencoding to macroman?
>>
>> Yes, and the result is the same.
>
> Well it was worth a shot.
>
>>> The reason you see the upside-down question marks is because VIM
>>> converts the buffer content from utf-8 to latin1, but the latin1
>>> character set does not include the left and right single quotes and VIM
>>> will change them to upside-down quotes so they stand out. On Macs there
>>> is special code to convert utf-8 to Mac encoding where the left and
>>> right quotes exist, so that should work for you. Unfortunately I don't
>>> have access to a Mac to confirm this.
>>
>> I do not know much about print encondings, but... wouldn't it be
>> possible to define new print encodings, namely a UTF-8 print encoding?
>
> That would make life easier, but history is against you I'm afraid.

Would you care to elaborate? Is PostScript the problem? If so, can Vim
bypass generating a PostScript file?

>> My current workaround is to use :TOhtml then print the resulting HTML
>> from a browser, but I'd like to have a direct way.
>
> That would be nicer. I'll raise it on the vim dev list as I have some
> ideas.

Great :) That is a minor annoyance (I do not need to print often), but
it would be nice if the process could be streamlined.

Thanks,
Life.

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