[cups.general] (still) accented letters dropped

[Michael Sweet]

Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 11:46 -0400, Fred wrote:
> 
>> in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, I've tried "utf-8" or "iso-8859-1" for
>> "DefaultCharset"
> 
> The texttops filter in CUPS does not correctly handle the UTF-8
> character encoding.

Huh?  UTF-8 *is* supported, although we don't do character
composition.  Other multi-byte encodings are not currently
supported, however.

 > ...
> The Red Hat package of CUPS in Fedora Core 6 (shortly to be released)
> and in the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will use a text->PS
> filter based on the paps package, which does correctly handle UTF-8 and
> uses fontconfig for rendering glyphs.  This means that documents such
> as /usr/share/doc/pango-*/HELLO.utf8 will print out correctly.

That's great.  It would be even better if we can make it work without
fontconfig and Pango, which are Linuxisms...

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