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

[Michael R Sweet]

Matthias M. Weber wrote:
> Thanks for this info.  However, I regret the decision not to support ISO plain text files any longer because there are still users who can't or don't want to convert to utf for some reasons. Did I miss a thread about this question?

There was no thread specifically about this, however CUPS 1.2.0 did
come with a lot of discussion/fanfare/whatever about using UTF-8
throughout, with 1.3.x "cutting the cord" so that we could provide a
consistent experience to the user.

Relying on the charset encoding for text files has always been
problematic, particularly for Asian users who often use 3 or more
character sets on a regular basis.

To print an ISO-8859-1 text file, just use:

     iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 filename.txt | lp -d printer

I think if you omit the "-f" it will default to the locale encoding,
and the above solution is easily scripted/aliased.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer