[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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