Manipulating print files as they are queued

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Sat Jan 27 07:52:24 PST 2007


Opher Shachar wrote:
> Hi all,
> Relating to STR#2167 http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2167.
> In our environment *any* text/plain file printed is either iso-8859-8 or utf-8. At the time being changing our software to produce utf-8 encoded plain-text files is not feasable.
> Can I configure things such that all text/plain files not utf-8 encoded be marked as iso-8859-8 at queue time on the server, by way of a filter or an event notification or any other way?

There is no way to do this specifically except to replace the
text/plain filter on the server with one that sets the character
set to ISO-8859-8 before running texttops (or whatever text filter
you decide to use...)

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