FC6 cups conversion of text to postscript failes

[Karl-Olov Serrander]

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
> > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÃ
ÄÖ"
> > 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 at cntw.com