[cups.general] unsupported charset

[Helge Blischke]

Christoph Litauer wrote:
> 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).
> 

You might consider the attachment from my previous post on this
topic. At our site we used that to continue tupport for all boxes
that still have a CUPS 1.1.x running.

Helge


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