[cups.bugs] German Umlaute are not printed with cups 1.3.4

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Nov 8 09:32:53 PST 2007


Matthias M. Weber wrote:
> Since I updated to cups 1.3.4 (from 1.2.12, gentoo distribution) German umlaute and other letters with diacritics are not printed correctly or not at all with ISO 8859-1 file encoding.  I noticed by chance that this error does not occur with utf-8 encoding.  I didn't change anything elso on my system (compiler, locales etc.) and reproduced this behavior with to different printer drivers and printers. However, I do not want to convert my files to utf-8 ...

CUPS 1.3.x only supports UTF-8 text printing.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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