From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:44:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1134660719.186074.250590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135946784 22815 80.91.229.2 (30 Dec 2005 12:46:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 30 13:46:21 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EsJeA-0005gx-Qa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:46:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EsJfZ-0004iK-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:47:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EsJ5V-0001T8-84 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EsIsb-0007TM-9r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:57:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EsIhx-0005Ld-Ea for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:46:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EsIiT-0003Ff-8S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:46:37 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-146-136.inter.net.il [80.230.146.136]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id CHY85415 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:44:35 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Ilya Zakharevich on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:38:07 +0000 (UTC)) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32304 Archived-At: > From: Ilya Zakharevich > 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.