[cups.general] Unsupported character set messages filling up error logs

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Aug 30 07:57:03 PDT 2010


This is something added by a Linux distributor.  Versions of CUPS prior to 1.2 used ISO-8859-1 by default - you can edit the /usr/share/locale/??/cups_?? files and replace the first line with "utf-8" to "fix" the problem.

On Aug 30, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Tim Edwards wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I get the following set of messages filling up my cups error logs. There
> is obviously a misconfiguration somewhere (the character set name and IP
> address are mixed up) but I can't find it. Can someone suggest something?
> 
> D [30/Aug/2010:11:10:48 +0000] CUPS-Get-Default
> D [30/Aug/2010:11:10:48 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 11 status_code=0
> (successful-ok)
> D [30/Aug/2010:11:10:48 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 11 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [30/Aug/2010:11:10:48 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
> provided.
> E [30/Aug/2010:11:10:48 +0000] Unsupported character set
> "134.171.16.146" from host iso-8859-1! Clients must use us-ascii or
> utf-8.  Future versions will reject this request.
> D [30/Aug/2010:11:10:48 +0000] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost/jobs/
> D [30/Aug/2010:11:10:48 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 11 status_code=0
> (successful-ok)
> D [30/Aug/2010:11:10:48 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 11
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim Edwards
> 
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