[cups.general] Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"

[Michael R Sweet]

Myroslav Rozum wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Could anyone help me with following?
> I'm trying to set-up CUPS 1.2 (cups-1.4svn-r7308) which has been built manually using:
>  ./configure --with-languages=all --prefix=/opt/cups --with-rcdir=/opt/cups/etc/init.d/ --enable-threads

cups-1.4svn-r7308 is a developer snapshot of CUPS 1.4 (not for
production use!)

> It is up and running, but when I'm tryong to check printers from client computer I'm getting:
> lpstat: get-printers failed: client-error-bad-request
> 
> At this time on the server's side I see:
>  CUPS-Get-Printers client-error-bad-request: Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"!
> 
> Btw, after installation I checked installed character sets using:
> ls /opt/cups/share/cups/charsets/ and there was only: utf-8
> 
> DOes anyone has any ideas? Because I really need 8859-1 and cant replace in with UTF-8 at client's side.

CUPS 1.2 and higher only supports UTF-8 natively.  We *do* convert
command-line arguments from the locale encoding to UTF-8, however.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer