a2ps corrupts accented characters (uses wrong encoding?)

[jimav]

Accented characters come out wrong -- wrong accents or an entirely different character when formatted with a2ps.

I'll attach and example text file with accented characters and the resulting postscript output.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: a2ps 1:4.14-1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 9 15:15:38 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: a2ps
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[jimav (james-avera)]

Ok, it looks like launchpad or Firefox are afflicted by the same bug -- clicking the "Sample input text file" link in comment #1 displays wrong text for me.

So here is a screen-show showing how it looks in a terminal, which is the correct rendering.