[cups.general] unsupported charset

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Apr 3 09:08:15 PDT 2008


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.

CUPS 1.2.0 was the first release to only support UTF-8, but did
(incorrectly) accept requests using other character sets.  1.3.4
contains the fix to only allow US-ASCII and UTF-8 in requests.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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