charset encoding always latin1

[michaelrsweet]

Version: 1.1.18
CUPS.org User: maccy2.yahoo

no matter what is defined for default charset in cupsd.conf (the default should be utf-8) cups treats all text files as latin1. printing an utf-8 encoded text file should print file with a default installtion because utf-8 is the default but it isn't really.
Shouldn't there also be an option for lp/lpr to define a charset encoding, which should be handed over to the cups server?

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: mike

This is a support question.

Basically, you need to define your locale (the LANG environment variable) to a UTF-8 locale, otherwise CUPS will assume that you want to print using the locale's default encoding.

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: maccy2.yahoo

sorry, both root's LC_CTYPE is de_DE.UTF-8 and user's LANG is de_DE.UTF-8. printing an UTF-8 encoded text file containing umlauts gives results like cat'ing UTF-8 to an 8bit terminal. UTF-8 conversion is not being done. No support question, a bug ;-)

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: maccy2.yahoo

also printing html which has it's site encoding in meta tags does not work with anything else than latin1. utf-8 encoded html code (containing the charset in meta tag) is printed as 8bit text.

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: mike

Have you copied the corresponding CUPS message catalog which (currently) defines the charset to the UTF-8 message catalog directory?

This is not a bug.