[cups.general] cups client 1.1.X can not talk to new server1.3.7 ?!?

[Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch]

It worked. Thanks.

Anyway, we will replace this server, but other stuff has a higher
priority ... ;)

Bye, Peer

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Klaus Singvogel wrote:
>> Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch wrote:
>>> OS:        SuSE 8.1 (i386)
>> Please keep in mind, this system is no longer supported and
>> you'll get no (security) updates any more for this system.
>> SuSE Enterprise Server customers get only in rare cases
>> security updates for this product (details were already
>> communicated to customers).
>>
>>> Well, we will replace this old system in the near future, but
>>> is there any way to get the cups working again ?
>> There were many issue with the locale. As a result CUPS was
>> changed to support "utf-8" only (I think it was cups-1.2.x).
>> No longer any old use of locales are supported.
>>
>> You might want to use "utf-8" on your clients and your server.
>> But I fear you might run into trouble when using it, as the system
>> is really old and not really capable of "utf-8". Or you abandon the
>> localized texts printing option and switch back to pure ASCII texts
>> with appropriate locale settings.
>>
>> Please note, that PostScript documents (default) are not influenced
>> by this "utf-8" restriction, its only the cups messages and internal
>> converting of "txt" documents. Printing PS docs with localized
>> characters within should even work when using a pure ASCII locale.
>>
>> I would suggest to update your Linux systems, to avoid any such
>> conflicts in future and stabilize your security on them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> 	Klaus.
> 
> Try the following:
> 
> Below
> 	/usr/share/locale
> find all files
> 	cups_xx
> where xx is one of the locale tags CUPS has been installed for,
> and edit these files by replacing the
> 
> 	iso8859-1
> in the first line by
> 	utg-8
> 
> This worked at least on my SuSE 8.2 system, and I suspect it is set up
> the same way on your 8.1 system.
> 
> Helge
> 
> 


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Mit freundlichem Gruss
     Peer-Joachim Koch
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