[cups.general] unsupported charset

[Christoph Litauer]

Klaus Singvogel schrieb:
> 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.

Thanks for your quick reply Klaus.

I read somwhere that 1.3.5 introduced an automatic charset conversion so 
you are still able to print with other charsets. In fact, I was not 
really honest: In the original posting I overlooked shell variable 
LC_CTYPE, which was set to de_DE at euro (iso-8859-15). I unsetted this 
variable, now just LANG was set to POSIX. The systems locale is set to 
de_DE at euro, too (/etc/sysconfig/language).
Since unsetting LC_CTYPE I at once was able to print. Seems as if 
printing is possible, even if you don't have utf-8 as default character set?

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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