Bug#848563: UTF-8 support

[Dominique Dumont]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 07:43:59 -0500 Anthony DeRobertis <anthony at derobert.net> 
wrote:
> I fed cdlabelgen a file name that contained an em-dash (—, U+2014). On
> the printout, however, it wasn't an em-dash anymore—it was a bunch of
> weird characters. (My locale is en_US.UTF-8).
> 
> UTF-8 really ought to work. (I'm not holding my breath, considering the
> state of Unicode support in Postscript.)

That, and cdlabelgen is mostly dead upstream.

You best bet is to convert your file to ISO-8858-1 using iconv in translit 
mode. I.e. something like:

 iconv -t ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT -o outfile.txt infile.txt

HTH

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