[cups.general] Older clients fail with 1.3.4 server

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Nov 8 16:54:59 PST 2007


Helge Blischke wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
>> grant basham wrote:
>>
>>> I should have noted that the 1.3.4 server which fails with 1.1.17 
>>> works with 1.2.x clients
>>
>> Right, CUPS 1.2 and higher clients convert from the locale encoding
>> to UTF-8.
>>
> Does that mean a machine running cups 1.1 (e.g. 1.1.19) cannot
> communicate successfully with a cups 1.3.x server?

It can as long as it uses a UTF-8 or US-ASCII locale.  Otherwise
the requests will be rejected.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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