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

[sean]

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.

> 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.

sean