Gnome-u2ps is a software tool that allows for the conversion of Unicode text to GNU a2ps style postscript.
Gnome-u2ps is an excellent Unicode text-to-postscript converter that brings a host of internationalization (i18n) features to the GNU a2ps text printing world. This open-source software is designed to help users print complex languages like Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Arabic, which the original GNU a2ps program lacked.
One of the strongest points of Gnome-u2ps is its full UTF-8 text conversion capabilities to PostScript via libgnomeprint. However, it also supports legacy codesets with its -X option (use 'iconv -l' to see the supported codeset). Moreover, the app provides appropriate font guessing from the current locale and Arabic bidirectional text support with libfribidi (version >=0.10.4). Gnome-u2ps also features legacy codeset auto-detection of plain text and specific codeset support for EUC-JP, SJIS, ISO-2022-JP for Japanese(ja_JP.*), EUC-KR for Korean(ko_KR.*), Big5 for Traditional Chinese(zh_TW.*), GB18030 for Simplified Chinese(zh_CN.*), and Big5 HKSCS for Hong Kong locale(zh_HK.*).
Other key features of Gnome-u2ps include the mail parse option (--mail), which is similar to a2ps -=mail. Base64 subject decode, codeset guessing from Content-Type header charset property, and circled digits support for iso-2022-jp. To use this program, you need to have installed libgnome and libgnomeprint.
The latest release of Gnome-u2ps (version not specified) fixes the setlocale() problem. Overall, if you need to print text in complex languages using the GNU a2ps style postscript, Gnome-u2ps is an excellent choice.
One of the strongest points of Gnome-u2ps is its full UTF-8 text conversion capabilities to PostScript via libgnomeprint. However, it also supports legacy codesets with its -X option (use 'iconv -l' to see the supported codeset). Moreover, the app provides appropriate font guessing from the current locale and Arabic bidirectional text support with libfribidi (version >=0.10.4). Gnome-u2ps also features legacy codeset auto-detection of plain text and specific codeset support for EUC-JP, SJIS, ISO-2022-JP for Japanese(ja_JP.*), EUC-KR for Korean(ko_KR.*), Big5 for Traditional Chinese(zh_TW.*), GB18030 for Simplified Chinese(zh_CN.*), and Big5 HKSCS for Hong Kong locale(zh_HK.*).
Other key features of Gnome-u2ps include the mail parse option (--mail), which is similar to a2ps -=mail. Base64 subject decode, codeset guessing from Content-Type header charset property, and circled digits support for iso-2022-jp. To use this program, you need to have installed libgnome and libgnomeprint.
The latest release of Gnome-u2ps (version not specified) fixes the setlocale() problem. Overall, if you need to print text in complex languages using the GNU a2ps style postscript, Gnome-u2ps is an excellent choice.
What's New
Version 0.0.4: N/A