swedish characters (åäö) from lp or lpr print gibberish

[Michael Sweet]

Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
>> Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
>>>> Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
>>>>> Hello cupsers!
>>>>>
>>>>> I use Mac OS X 10.5.6, CUPS, Airport and have a HP LaserJet 1010 as networkprinter. From applications (emacs, textedit, neooffice, openoffice, etc) printing works OK both from the Mac and from a open SuSE 10.3 computer (even with swedish charcters 'åäö'). However, when I use lp or lpr from the 'terminal' or 'konsole' to print textfiles I get 'gibberish' for the sedish characters åäö. What shuld be tweaked and how? I'm using UTF-8.
>>>> It's a known bug in the Mac OS X text filter; as a temporary solution
>>>> you can comment out the text/plain line in /etc/cups/apple.convs and
>>>> then do:
>>>>
>>>>      sudo killall -HUP cupsd
>>>>
>>>> to register the change.
>>>>
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>>>> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
>>> Dear Michael,
>>> Thank you for the suggestion but now i get: lpr: The format ”text/plain” isn't supported! (my translation from swedish). So lpr or lp wouldn't print at all.
>> Hmm, make sure you have a /usr/libexec/cups/filter/texttops program,
>> and the /etc/cups/mime.convs file lists texttops as well.
>>
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>> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Thanks again,
> 
> Well, I have /private/etc/cups/mime.convs
> but in the /usr/libexec/cups/filter only:
> 
> cgpdftopdf             nstexttopdf            pstoraster
> cgpdftops              pdftopm                rastertodymo
> cgpdftoraster          pictwpstops            rastertoepson
> commandtocanon         pstoappleps            rastertogimpprint.5.0
> commandtoepson         pstocupsraster         rastertogutenprint.5.1
> gziptoany              pstopdffilter          rastertohp
> hpgltops               pstops                 rastertolabel
> nsimagetopdf           pstopxl                rastertotiff
> 
> and as far as I see no texttops and locate texttops is also negative?
> 
> In mime.convs:
> 
> application/x-cshell    application/postscript  33      texttops
> application/x-csource   application/postscript  33      texttops
> application/x-perl      application/postscript  33      texttops
> application/x-shell     application/postscript  33      texttops
> text/plain              application/postscript  33      texttops
> text/html               application/postscript  33      texttops
> 
> so texttops is referred to but maybe non-existant.
> 
> Where can I find that filter?

It would be part of the normal CUPS source distribution - I guess
that filter isn't included in the normal Mac OS X install...

You can download the current CUPS 1.3.9 source code and build it to
produce the texttops filter, then copy it to /usr/libexec/cups/filter.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com