[cups.bugs] [HIGH] STR #4179: Cups or LPD filters UTF-8 box drawing characters.
Hin-Tak Leung
htl10 at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Sep 1 22:08:26 PDT 2012
What platform?
Cups before 2008 should be able to handle utf8 text via texttops (one of the cups backend filters). After 2008, pdf-capable printers do it via texttopdf - that first appears in Ubuntu but spreaded to other linux'es.
--- On Sat, 1/9/12, Jason <jpvoodoo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: Jason <jpvoodoo at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [cups.bugs] [HIGH] STR #4179: Cups or LPD filters UTF-8 box drawing characters.
> To: cups-bugs at cups.org
> Date: Saturday, 1 September, 2012, 6:46
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> Trying to use UTF-8 "box drawing" characters in python
> redirected to lpr
>
> Ex:
> ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┓
> ┃
> Denomination ┃ Qty ┃ Amount
> ┃
> ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━┫
> ┃ Hundreds
> 0
> $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Fifties
> 0 $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Twenties
> 0
> $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Tens
> 0
> $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Fives
> 0 $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Twos
> 0
> $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Singles
> 0 $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Half Dollars
> 0
> $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Quarters
> 0
> $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Dimes
> 0 $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Nickels
> 0 $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Pennies
> 0 $0.00 ┃
> ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫
> ┃ Total Cash:
> $0.00 ┃
> ┃ Less Bank:
> $0.00 ┃
> ┃
>
> ──────── ┃
> ┃ Ending Balance:
> $0.00 ┃
> ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
>
> ex: lp utf_file.txt
>
> The box characters display correctly on my terminal but
> don't appear when
> printed. this is whether lp is called directly from my
> program or when a
> text file contains characters like these:
> "┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛"
>
> python command to draw it is:
>
> print u'\u2517'+u'\u2501' * 38 + u'\u251B'+"\n"
>
> Normal ascii characters do appear.
> Printer is an HP Photosmart 5510 Wireless using HP-setup via
> jetdirect
> port. Cups is installed locally on the PC.
>
> Printer is not attached to the PC and has no USB support. I
> understand
> that CUPs supports UTF-8 by default.
>
> This may well not even be a bug within cups itself. It could
> even be the
> printer or my setup. Any advice would be appreciated, but I
> understand I'm
> probably the only fool who wants to draw unicode boxes to a
> line printer.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4179
> Version: 1.5.0
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