Printing French characters

[Helge Blischke]

Carl Fry wrote:
> 
> Hi guys.
> I have been running cups 1.1.20 on a couple of HP-UX 11.00 systems. (Compiled on the systems from source, using gcc-3.3.2)
> It is easy to administer and resolves a political requirement for watermarks.
> 
> The only problem is that it won't print French characters. We have a requirement to print in English and French from a SAS application.
> Setting the LANG environment variable to fr_CA.iso88591 in the user's environment will display the proper accents in vi and dtpad, but sending the output to the printer through CUPS gives us garbage.
> 
> I have set the DefaultLangage to fr_CA.iso88591 in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and recycled the cups daemon. Also set the LANG variable to the same locale in the user's environment. Still prints "garbage" characters where the French characters should be.
> 
> Has anyone successfully printed French or any other character set with CUPS? What have I done wrong?
> 
Could you please post (an URL to) a sample file which exhibits this
issue?

Helge


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