[cups.general] unsupported charset

[Helge Blischke]

Klaus Singvogel wrote:
> Christoph Litauer wrote:
> 
>>I am running cups-1.3.5 with SuSE SLES 10 (sp1) on the server. Most of 
>>my clients are still using cups-1.1.x
>>
>>Printing to the (new) cups server leads to
>>
>># lpr -Ppresse /etc/group
>>lpr: Unsupported character set "iso-8859-15"!
> 
> 
> This is a known feature. I think the limitation to UTF-8 was introduced
> wich cups-1.3.x.
> 
> 
>>I tried to follow Helge's tip to change /usr/share/locale/C/cups_C but 
>>this file doesn't exist on my client and my LANG is set to POSIX.
>>Btw: Changing all client configurations is not an option ...
> 
> 
> You might have set a locale ("locale") on the client to non UTF-8
> and this is the cause of the problem.
> 
> 
>>Any way to get the server to accept requests other than utf-8?
> 
> 
> No.
> Exception: you want to introduce this into the source code at your own.
> 
> Work-around: try to convert your (text)files to UTF-8 (e.g. with
> "iconv") and send them as UTF-8 encoded to your server. Note that your
> locale variables should be set to the correct values too.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Klaus.

Use the attached file and put into the appropriate directory.
It is the file originally delivered with CUPS 1.1.18 and modified
to default to utf-8.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung

H.Blischke at acm.org

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