On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 16:19 +0200, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: > > I have a problem with cups when converting from text to ps. > > (eg: lpr -P printer textfile ) it only converts until there comes a > > 8-bit character, then nothing. > > "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzåäö > > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ���" > > comes out as > > "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" > > sometimes everything after the the 8-bit char is lost > > > > My cups-server is redhat-9, and my client is FC6 fully updated. > > printing on my cups-server works ok, also printing on older clients > > with FC3 works ok. > > > > LANG=en_US on all machines. > > It probably should be "LANG=en_US.UTF-8", else ASCII might be presumed > (which is *ONLY* 7-bit). It might be another encoding scheme, though, > as I see your message was ISO-8859-1. It should match your environment, > whatever it is. Answering my own question: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2167 "CUPS 1.2 and beyond only supports UTF-8 internally, and only advertises UTF-8 and US-ASCII as supported character sets." http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2298 includes a workaround, which i will test. Regards -- Karl-Olov Serrander kase@xxxxxxxx
