missing of "us-ascii" character set file

Sam zhaomingz at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 16:44:20 PST 2006


> Sam wrote:
> >> Sam wrote:
> >>> the missing of  "us-ascii" character set file, under /usr/share/cups/charsets, lead to error when print ascii file.
> >>>
> >>> Any place to download this charset conversion file ?
> >> It shouldn't be necessary, since all of the supported character sets
> >> use US-ASCII for characters 0 to 127...
> >>
> >> --
> >> ______________________________________________________________________
> >> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> >> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com
> >
> > Michael:
> >
> > But i got this error when print any ascii file:
> > "No conversion available for type 'text/plain:charser=us-ascii'"
> > and the us-ascii character set file was not found in /usr/share/cups/charsets folder.
> >
> > Are these two issues related or not?
>
> No, they aren't.  The MIME type (if you've provided the correct one)
> is bad - the charset modifier is not supported, and you need to use a
> semicolon (not a colon) to separate the type from the charset,
> anyways.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com


Hi, Mike:

In which file should I "use a semicolon (not a colon) to separate the type from the charset"? I did not find such one in mime.convs or mime.types. Please specify.  Thanks

Sam




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