[cups.general] unsupported charset

[Christoph Litauer]

Michael R Sweet schrieb:
> 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.
> 

Thanks Michael. This leads me to downgrade my server to cups 1.1.x ... 
it's impossible to upgrade hundreds of pcs and laptops at once ... (sigh).

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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