[cups.general] question about charset

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Sep 1 04:25:56 PDT 2006


Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:05:38PM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> Jerome Alet wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> while writing my own backend, I'm wondering about the charset
>>> used to encode the title and filename arguments (and possibly
>>> the other ones).
>> The filenames and title (job-name) are always UTF-8 in CUPS 1.2
>> and beyond.  CHARSET only refers to the document character set.
> 
> Thanks ! I thought they were related.
> 
> Could you also tell me how were filenames and title encoded in
> previous versions of CUPS ? 

Basically it was undefined, but normally UTF-8 on most systems.

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