[cups.general] how to print extended ascii code

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Sep 12, at 23:13, William Anthony wrote:
>> William Anthony wrote:
>>> My Java application currently running on windows, and there are  
>>> some printout form that use extended ascii code (128-255), eg: box  
>>> characters.
>>> When I tested them with cups, it show scrambled characters.
>>> Is there any workaround? Thanks.
>>
>> Those aren't "extended ASCII" (there is no such thing), those are one
>> of the old IBM code pages, and we do not provide support for them.
>
> OK, I understand it's the "old" thing that cups won't support. So,  
> is there the "new" thing cups supported that I can use to implement  
> box characters? Thanks.

CUPS uses UTF-8 Unicode.

It seems to me that with a backend like tea4cups you could wire recode  
into the output filters to convert whatever codepage is being used  
into UTF-8.

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