https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=387130 User ke@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=387130#c1 Karl Eichwalder <ke@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |jsmeix@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Karl Eichwalder <ke@novell.com> 2008-05-06 07:04:32 MST --- I think this is basically a dupe of bug 340963. ATM, this is what we have prepared for the 11.0 release notes (in SVN): <!-- Bug 340963 --> <sect3 id="cups-utf8" status="2007-11-16"> <title>Printing Legacy Encoded Text Files</title> <para>The printing system based on CUPS 1.3.x (Common UNIX Printing System) no longer converts legacy encoded text files such as ISO-8859-1, windows-1252, and Asian encodings on its own. Only UTF-8 and thus ASCII is supported.</para> <para> As a work-around to print legacy encoded text files, convert before sending them to the CUPS server. To print an ISO-8859-1 text file, use: </para> <screen>iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 filename.txt | lp -d printer </screen> <para>Note, printing of PDF or PS or such binary files (JPEG, PNG, etc.) works as before. </para> </sect3> -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=387130 User jsmeix@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=387130#c3 --- Comment #3 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2008-05-06 08:58:20 MST --- I think https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340963#c2 is only the minor severe part of the UTF-8 stuff. UTF-8 responses from the cupsd results some false displayed characters in a non-UTF-8 environment. The more severe problem is that the cupsd only accepts requests in UTF-8 encoding (i.e. the other direction of the communication with the cupsd) and rejects any other kind of request which lets applications just fail. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=387130 User ke@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=387130#c5 --- Comment #5 from Karl Eichwalder <ke@novell.com> 2008-05-07 07:33:27 MST --- This is what I've prepared in SVN: <!-- Bug 387130 --> <sect3 id="cups-utf8-2nd" status="2008-05-07"> <title>CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) and UTF-8 Encoding</title> <para> Since CUPS 1.3.4 the <command>cupsd</command> accepts only UTF-8 encoded data. Because this change is backward incompatible, older CUPS clients such as CUPS 1.1 <!-- coming with SLE10 --> may no longer work—for example, see <ulink url="http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.general+T+Q%22unsupported+charset%22"/>. </para> <para> Applications communicating with the <command>cupsd</command> such as <command>hp-setup</command> or the &yast; printer configuration, do no longer work if neither a plain 7-bit ASCII nor a UTF-8 locale is used. The problem does not occur if you use a default UTF-8 locate as pre-configured on openSUSE since several years. </para> </sect3> -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.