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I've tried the fax service today sending the txt file.

The addressee got gibberish instead of the fax message(:

I've pulled the original out the logs and it looks like the original file was received as gibberish (well, binary) on our end. Are you sure the file on your end really is a plain text file? What did you use to create it? OS/Browser?

it's a real txt file. I used wordpad to paste the text into it. windows 7.
you need to specify how do you need the file to be formatted, if the tool you use is so sensitive.
In any case, I'd expect you use some parser to check if the file is text or binary and send email if there is a problem with the file.

$ file Papa.txt
Papa.txt: Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode Pascal program text, with CRLF line terminators

Is 'Papa.txt' really unicode, or is that a bug in the 'file' utility? Chances are pretty high that a unicode text file would get mangled...

Unfortunately enscript which is responsible for text->ps conversion in the fax tools doesn't support Unicode. I didn't realize this when I wrote it. Further, it looks like most of the standard tools either don't or only have partial Unicode support as well so it may take a bit to track down a solution. (This process could be sped up by anyone with a good suggestion on how to turn Unicode into postscript using Lucida Sans Typewritter - optimally - with commonly available linux cli tools.)

Meanwhile, I've added a note about the lack of Unicode support in the wiki and will add a check for Unicode in the conversion code.

funny: I always use unicode, even though in this case it's english only text.
maybe this helps: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Unicode-HOWTO-5.html

I tried sending a fax using the Chrome browser ... clicked Send but nothing was sent. Sent a fax fine using IE9.
Didn't see anything about Chrome or other browsers at https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/Send_A_Fax
Thanks.

I tried to reproduce this in Chrome, but I was able to send a fax using Chrome version 12.0.742.91 under Windows 7. What version/OS are you using?

hmm, works fine now, Chrome 12.0.742.91 on Windows. Not sure what went wrong last night. Sorry for the false alarm.
nice-to-have: for plain .txt files, can the font be a bit darker? Thanks.