Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Apr 13 21:55:30 PDT 2009


rock at peppa.com wrote:
> I'm in a difficult position with a chroot environment for legacy Linux (debian)
> system. This is done because of old software that doesn't work with the new libraries.
> 
>   My old version of lpr from cupsys-bsd is not working with the newer version of the server in the host system. I get this error:
> 
> # E [13/Apr/2009:19:29:57 -0500] Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"!

Prior to CUPS 1.2, the default character set was iso-8859-1.  CUPS 1.2
and later only support UTF-8...

Edit the /usr/share/locale/*/cups_* files and change the "iso-8859-1"
to "utf-8".

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com




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