Gnome-u2ps 0.0.4 review

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Gnome-u2ps converts Unicode texts to GNU a2ps style postscript. GNU a2ps is a popular text printing program but it is not maintain

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
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Developer: Yukihiro Nakai
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Gnome-u2ps converts Unicode texts to GNU a2ps style postscript.

GNU a2ps is a popular text printing program but it is not maintainanced and lacks i18n
features, especially complex languages like Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic.

Gnome-u2ps brings GNOME i18n benefits to text printing world.

Here are some key features of "Gnome u2ps":
UTF-8 text conversion to PostScript by libgnomeprint (>= 2.5.4 required)
Legacy codeset support with -X option. ('iconv -l' to see the supported codeset)
Appropriate font guessing from current locale
Arabic bidirectional text support with libfribidi (>=0.10.4)
Legacy codeset auto-detection of plain text
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.*)
Big5 HKSCS for Hong Kong locale(zh_HK.*)
Mail parse option --mail. Similar to a2ps -=mail .
Base64 subject decode
Codeset guessing from Content-Type header charset property.
Circled digits support for iso-2022-jp.

Requirements:
libgnome
libgnomeprint

What's New in This Release:
Fix for setlocale() problem

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