[cups] cups 2.0.2 / cups-filters-1.0.62 && printing UTF-8 text files

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, March 11, 2015 a las 09:50:11AM +0100, Johannes Meixner escribió:

> A filter progran that converts text into PostScript must
> always output PostScript and nothing else because the
> CUPS filtering system cannot deal with filters that
> output different formats.
> 
> If the PostScript output from text2ps chould be converted
> into any other format it is usually done by a subsequent
> separated filter (e.g. something like a "ps2pcl5e").
> 
> If text input should be converted into PCL5e this could also
> be done by a single filter (e.g. text2pcl5) that converts text
> into PCL5e but then there is the drawback that any text input
> will be converted into PCL5e because the CUPS filtering system
> cannot deal with several filters for exact same input format.
> When there are several filters available for same input MIME type,
> the CUPS filtering system will usually choose one same filter
> (the cheapest) to process that input format (except special
> exceptions that depend on the final format that is requested
> by the particular print queue according to its PPD).
> 
> For more information you may have a look at
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Filters_to_Print_with_CUPS

I have checked the above page (and all the SDB); printing Unicode /
UTF-8 does not seem to be mentioned; only the Euro symbol and 'some
special chars' are mentioned :-(

Thanks anyway

	matthias
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