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

[Michael Sweet]

Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> 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.

File a bug with Apple:

     http://bugreport.apple.com

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