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

Claus Atzenbeck claus.atzenbeck at freenet.de
Tue Apr 29 01:52:50 PDT 2008


On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Michael Sweet wrote:

>> 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

At least I know now that it should print UTF-8. I filed a bug report.

Cheers,
Claus.


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