[cups.general] pdftops locale problem

[Christoph Litauer]

Olaf Meeuwissen schrieb:
> Klaus Singvogel <kssingvo at suse.de> writes:
> 
>> Christoph Litauer wrote:
>>> [snip]>
>>> I can reproduce this error via:
>>>
>>> $ cat 1.pdf | (env PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/pdfmail.ppd LANG=de_DE 
>>> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops 11111 someuser sometitle 1 "") | grep 56,
>>> DEBUG: pdftops - copying to temp print file 
>>> "/var/spool/cups/tmp/484e68d911d31"
>>> DEBUG: pdftops - opened PPD file "/etc/cups/ppd/pdfmail.ppd"...
>>> DEBUG: pdftops - level = 2, width = 595, length = 842
>>> [1 0 0 1 56,88 774,56] cm
>>> The conversion doesn't take place if I ommit the PPD environment 
>>> variable or define another locale (LANG) - unfortunately I cannot 
>>> control this behaviour on the clients. This leads to the following 
>>> questions:
>>> 1.) Why are the floating numbers only converted it environment variable 
>>> PPD is set?
>> The glibc is doing this.
> 
> Because the filter(s) didn't bother to tell it otherwise.
> 
>> If you want to print the text "€" then locale says that the Euro-Sign
>> should be printed and not a different symbol.
>> But the very same module also converts your output of numbers from
>> "5.1" to "5,1" as your country says that this is official sign for
>> number separation. :-)
>>
>>> 2.) What can I do against this conversion?
>> Don't use any other locale than LANG=C or LANG=POSIX
>>
>> You might want to edit /etc/init.d/cups and add a line:
>> LANG=C
>>
>> even a line could help:
>> LC_NUMBER=POSIX
> 
> That'd be LC_NUMERIC and if that helps, filter programs can and should
> do the same thing for you.
> 
>> Note: I haven't tested my advice, but I think it "fix" it.
> 
> Hope this helps,

Thanks a lot. I decided to use Helges alternate pdftops filter.

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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