[cups.general] (still) accented letters dropped

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Oct 19 05:05:53 PDT 2006


Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:01 -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Well, I meant to say that only a small subset of UTF-8 glyphs can be
> printed using texttops.  Do you think it's the reason the original
> poster is missing their accented characters?

Probably not, it is more likely missing glyphs in the fonts we are
using...

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