From: Michael Mueller Date: 2004-05-08T05:48:55+09:00 Subject: Re: Encoding with TCPSocket > At least you're getting something... Lucky me ;-) > What are the cryptic characters? Like I said in the response to Michael it's actually only one character... > I'd be pretty surprised if the lpr protocols used 16bit unicode! They > should all be ascii. But, what is the protocol being used to talk to > the "lpr-Printer", maybe it's not an lpd printer? I don't think either that it's unicode... The Java-Snippet makes no conversion at all (besides the String#toByte[]). Regards, Michael