[cups.bugs] cups 1.3.9 (texttops) does not print ru_RU.UTF-8 chars

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Apr 9 08:14:53 PDT 2010


On Apr 9, 2010, at 2:24 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> I've created an UTF-8 text file with German Umlauts, Spanisch tilde chars, greek chars and cyrillic chars. The file prints fine from KDE's Kwrite.
> A 'lpr -Pps textfile' prints fine all chars, but not the cyrillic chars. The same can be proved with:
> 
> $ CHARSET=utf-8 /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/texttops 1 rleigh myfile 1 "" < testfile.utf8 > ps
> 
> and having a look into the PostScript file.
> 
> Looks like a bug in 'texttops'?


Nope, just missing characters/fonts that support those glyphs.  Look at the /usr/share/cups/charsets/utf-8 file and make sure that the Unicode ranges are mapped to an existing font with Cyrillic characters in it.

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