[tlug] A handy little tip!

["Maurod Sauco" <sauco@example.com>]

The trick is to find a UTF-8 capable text-to-PostScript converter that makes the result still look like ‘text’, i.e. monospaced, tabs interpreted correctly, and with boxes made by means of ‘box draw characters’ looking OK.

Printing UTF-8 files using Open Office:

# ooffice2 -p YourFile
or 
# ooffice2 -pt YourPrinter YourFile

This will not start openoffice just postscript and print your file to the default printer.
You can configure printing options with

# oopadmin2

Unfortunately openoffice does not accept text from stdin so you'll need a wrapper if you want to pipe to it.
Of course you can use iconv to print other encodings.

Of course there are other alternatives, like paps,uniprint or a2psj,  but this one look pretty good too.

//mauro//