cups-1.4.3 && printing ISO-8859-1 text files

[Helge Blischke]

Matthias Apitz wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> Using the above cups version 1.4.3 compiled from source I don't see how to
> print ISO-8859-1 text files directly:
> 
> $ file /tmp/olis.txt
> /tmp/olis.txt: ISO-8859 text
> $ LANG=es_ES.ISO8859-1 lpr -Ppdf /tmp/olis.txt
> 
> starts the filter 'texttops' with CHARSET=utf-8 environment. I see no way
> to change CHARSET to something else, i.e. this is the 1st question:
> 
> How I could influence CHARSET for the filter from the frontend command?
> 
> Even if I could set CHARSET to something else, a look into the source
> filter/texttops.c shows that only utf-8 is really supported in 1.4.3. I
> checked an older version (1.1.20) and there it seems was support for other
> CHARSET:
> 
> D [14/Oct/2010:12:02:19 +0200] StartJob:
> envp[0]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/bin:/usr/bin"
> D [14/Oct/2010:12:02:19 +0200] StartJob: envp[1]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.1"
> D [14/Oct/2010:12:02:19 +0200] StartJob: envp[2]="USER=root"
> D [14/Oct/2010:12:02:19 +0200] StartJob: envp[3]="CHARSET=iso-8859-1"
> D [14/Oct/2010:12:02:19 +0200] StartJob: envp[4]="LANG=en"
> ...
> D [14/Oct/2010:12:02:19 +0200] StartJob: filter
> = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops"
> 
> How this is supposed to work now in 1.4.3?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
>       matthias
> 

Install the texttops wrapper from the CUPS links pages. It uses Perl's 
Encode::Guess to determine the encoding of the submitted text and then 
translates it to UTF-8 and then calls the original texttops filter.

Helge