missing of "us-ascii" character set file

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Nov 6 16:26:29 PST 2006


Sam wrote:
>> Sam wrote:
>>> the missing of  "us-ascii" character set file, under /usr/share/cups/charsets, lead to error when print ascii file.
>>>
>>> Any place to download this charset conversion file ?
>> It shouldn't be necessary, since all of the supported character sets
>> use US-ASCII for characters 0 to 127...
>>
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>> ______________________________________________________________________
>> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
>> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com
> 
> Michael:
> 
> But i got this error when print any ascii file:
> "No conversion available for type 'text/plain:charser=us-ascii'"
> and the us-ascii character set file was not found in /usr/share/cups/charsets folder.
> 
> Are these two issues related or not?

No, they aren't.  The MIME type (if you've provided the correct one)
is bad - the charset modifier is not supported, and you need to use a
semicolon (not a colon) to separate the type from the charset,
anyways.

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




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