CUPS-1.4.5 in Solaris 10 AND ISO-8859-1

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Tue Jun 7 13:04:37 PDT 2011


Anh Minh -Le Van wrote:

> Hi,
> Can any one tell me how to printing document witch ISO-8859-1 in
> CUPS-1.4.5 ?
> 
> Case : print a document.txt (french characters), can print it out but the
> French accents replace by square
> 
> Thanks anyone's help in advance

Try the texttops wrapper from the links at www.cps.org. It guesses (mostly 
successful) the encoding of the input text and transforms it to UTF-8, which 
is the only encoding CUPS supports for 1.3.x and higher.

Note that this workaround does *not* work for raw queues.

Helge





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