[cups.general] CUPS character set (Ticket091911A)

[Michael Sweet]

On Sep 19, 2011, at 1:32 PM, ed smith wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Does CUPS even reference a character set when printing as a raw device?

No, raw means "pass this to the printer without changing it".

> We use Oracle Pasta upstream for all of our conversions and our printers have postscript modules installed, which has worked for several years. But some of our latin characters (accents) print as garbage. this is a solaris platform and the locales are set correctly, as the files display correctly with other utilities such as more and vi.


PostScript and Solaris default to different character sets, and PostScript doesn't natively support UTF-8. Your PS output needs to include the character set definition and/or embed fonts in order to reproduce all of the characters you use.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair