cupsfilter 1.4.3 && CHARSET=utf-8

[Matthias Apitz]

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> Hello,
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> I'm trying to figure out with cupsfilter what the cupsd at the end of the chain of processes will finally send to the printer...
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> For a given UTF-8 encoded text file I can fine do the conversion to Postscript using the mappings in charsets/utf-8 and the fonts with the following commands:
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> $ CHARSET=utf-8; export CHARSET
> $ PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/xxx.ppd; export PPD
> $ texttops 1 rleigh myfile 1 "" file.utf8 > file.ps
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> When I do this with cupsfilter like:
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> $ sbin/cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/xxx.ppd -m application/vnd.cups-postscript file.utf8 > file.ps
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> somehow the environment CHARSET=utf-8 is not given to the filter texttops and this in turn does not look into the file charsets/utf-8 for the mapping of UTF-8 codepoints to fonts.
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>

I digged into the sources of cups-1.4.6/scheduler/cupsfilter.c, fixed it for me and filed a bug report in:
https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4273

Matthias