Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:38:07 +0000 (UTC)
> Bcc: ilya@gnu.org
> Originator: ilya@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu
> 
> > > > Because an application that prints doesn't care about these intimate
> > > > details of the printer.
> > > 
> > > ???  IIRC, now we are discussing not the printer, but the pipe...
> > > Anyway, consider these questions as concerning a pipe.
> > 
> > If you send text to the pipe (using COPY or file I/O, like Emacs
> > does), you don't need to be bothered by these details (with the
> > exception of the EOLs, which I think must be CRLF).  They are taken
> > care of by the machinery that takes over once the text winds up in the
> > pipe.
> 
> Nonsense.  I'm discussing the input format of this pipe, not the input
> format of the printer.

Please re-read my answer: it _was_ about the input format of the
pipe.  I said that you need not bother about the details you were
asking about.
> > > Only if you print ASCII only you can forget about encodings
> 
> > I think this is also true if you use the encoding native to the
> > current locale, since the printer most probably supports that by
> > default.
> 
> There is no "current locale".  You probably mean "current codepage";

If you insist that there's no "current locale" on Windows, please
spell out the difference between it and the "current codepage", on
Windows.