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From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
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Subject: Re: Serial Line vs lwsrv font differences on IINT
Summary: 8th bit?
Keywords: Font Cap Symbol
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Date: 22 Nov 89 13:35:35 GMT
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hurf@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon) writes:
>	Some files containing Symbol, Greek and possibly some others
>	will print correctly if spooled directly to a laserwriter or created
>	with 'command f' and sent via a serial line to a laserwriter
>	but when spooling to lwsrv some of the characters are printed
>	incorrectly - My font file has 'Symbol' and '|______Symbol'
>	in it -...

lwsrv is not (in the stock distributed version) 8 bit transparent.
Characters with the 8th bit set need to be quoted before sending
them off to the laserwriter. Someone (?) posted a patch for this
not too long ago. I may still have my copy if no one comes forward
to claim the honor of the patch...

--John

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