[cups.general] Printing UTF-8 via command line

Claus Atzenbeck claus.atzenbeck at freenet.de
Tue Apr 29 00:36:23 PDT 2008


On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Michael R Sweet wrote:

> Text files use UTF-8 by default in CUPS 1.2 and higher.  You can
> pass "text/plain" for the document-format, but that should be auto-
> detected...

Mac OS 10.5.2. has CUPS 1.3.6 installed. However, lpr does not work with 
Unicode.

For example, I have a UTF-8 plain text file with bullet points ("•"). 
Executing "lpr utf8.txt" prints "•" instead of the bullet points.

Any workaround?

Cheers,
Claus


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