CUPS 1.4.3 && printing UTF-8 text

[Matthias Apitz]

> ...
> So your "Griechisch" line says:  α ρ ι σ ι ο ύ κ α ι τ α πε ρ ί χ ω ρ α κ α ι
> β ρ ί σ κ ε τ α ι σ ε έ ν α λ
>
> but the included "Monospace" font only knows the glyph for "π"
>

yes; a copy&paste from Evince to KDE's KEdit shows the same;

> ...
> > 2) Is there some good documentation which addresses the thematic: CUPS
> > / UTF-8 / fonts?
> >
> I think this is not a CUPS-problem.
>

yes & no; my understanding is that CUPS from the UTF-8 text file is producing some PostScript code (filter texttops) and the CUPS-PDF backend translates this to PDF using Ghostscript; wrong?

so it is something of this pipe which included the above mentioned "Monospace", which itself maybe wrong and sits outside of CUPS in the system environment (of X11?);

in any case a good documentation should address such issues and explain how to solve UTF-8 related printing/font issues; in any case, thanks for your feedback;

      Matthias