[cups.general] iso-8859-1 char not printing

[Willi Burmeister]

Hi,

we have cups-1.3.9 installed on our Solaris 10 SPARC system and most
things are working.

However ...

Lots of our files contains german ISO umlauts (äöüßÄÖÜ) and these are
not printed.

I configured cupsd.conf to use ISO-9959 but without luck:

DefaultLanguage en
DefaultCharset  iso-8859-15

While tracing the problem I found:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
27556:  execve("/opt/cups-1.3.9/lib/cups/filter/texttops", 0x000F0A90, 0xFFBF3C8C)  argc = 7
....
27556:   envp: CUPS_CACHEDIR=/var/opt/cups/cache
....
27556:    CHARSET=utf-8 LANG=en_US.UTF8
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Why are UTF used here?

While searching more I also found clients sends 'attributes-charset=utf-8',
but my clients are using iso-8859-15. Digging in the source I found this
in ipp.c:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
 /*
  * Use UTF-8 as the character set...
  */

  ippAddString(request, IPP_TAG_OPERATION, IPP_TAG_CHARSET,
               "attributes-charset", NULL, "utf-8");
----------------------------------------------------------------------

UTF-8 hardcoded in the source? Why?


Is cups not able to print ISO chars?

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

Willi