why are single quotes printed as Gamma C cedilla O umlaut?

[sean]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 7:01 PM -0400 10/3/05, sean wrote:
> 
>>Tony Nelson wrote:
>>
>>>At 2:13 PM -0400 10/2/05, sean wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>if I lpr a text file the open single quotes three characters:
>>>>
>>>>Capital greek gamma ; uppercase C with a cedilla ; lowercase
>>>>y with an umlaut
>>>>
>>>>Close singe quotes are :
>>>>
>>>>Capital greek gamma ; uppercase C with a cedilla ; uppercase
>>>>O with an umluat.
>>>>
>>>>Open double quotes are:
>>>>
>>>>capital greek gamma; uppercase C with a cedilla ; english
>>>>sterling sign
>>>>
>>>>Close double quotes are:
>>>>
>>>>capital greek gamma; uppercase C with a cedilla ; yen sign
>>>>
>>>>less shows the text correctly. I'm on fc4.
>>>>
>>>>sean
>>>
>>>
>>>You have some sort of mismatch with the charset (usually language
>>>settings).  The text file is in Unicode UTF-8, which less is expecting,
>>>while lpr or the printer is using some old 8-bit codepage (Microsoft calls
>>>it OEM 437).  Try to get lpr or the printer onto the same page, accepting
>>>UTF-8.  Check man lpr and the CUPS documentation it links to; possibly
>>>/etc/cups/cupsd.conf has a DefaultCharset set away from the default
>>>"utf-8".  Or maybe it's some other part of CUPS.
>>>
>>
>>Ok. set ( really uncommented ) cupsd.conf DefaultCharset
>>utf-8   ( which is supposed to be the default).  Restarted cups.
> 
> 
> I take it that didn't change anything?
> 
> 

Right. I should have been clearer.

> 
>>>Also, whatever made the text file has "smartened" the quotes; being a
>>>computer and having no smarts at all, the result is bad even when displayed
>>>"properly".
>>>
>>
>>The text is the ssh_config man page - man ssd_config | lpr.
>>Same result.
> 
> 
> Yeah, man bash has the same problem: a "smart" formatting package changes
> the literal single and double ASCII quotes in the source to something
> prettier for man to display.
> 

But if utf-8 can't display the charcter set, what can?

sean