Unicode character in PJL job title

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Sep 5 05:02:21 PDT 2006


Stefan Rijnhart wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Using a Kyocera KM-2030 in PCL mode with a vendor supplied PPD with
> cups 1.2.2. Also occurs when using a Brother 5170DN.
> 
> When printing a webpage with a Unicode character in its title from
> Mozilla Firefox, the character ends up in the PJL job title. Upon
> encountering this character, the printer starts printing one line or
> so of the PJL header before aborting.
> 
> The unicode character seem to violate the PJL specs, which I think
> allows ASCII values {9,32-255} only. My question is, is this a Cups
> problem or a Firefox problem?

First, ASCII is only 0-127.

Second, PJL as implemented by HP printers allows for UTF-8.  It may
be that we need to filter out UTF-8 characters from the PJL JOB
command we send for non-HP printers...

Please file a bug report at:

     http://www.cups.org/str.php

so that we can track the issue.

Thanks!

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com




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