Bug 59018

Summary: Cups doesn't have support for koi8-u and koi8-r encodings
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Leonid Kanter <leon>
Component: cupsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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patch that adds support for koi8-r, koi8-u and iso8859-8 none

Description Leonid Kanter 2002-01-29 13:50:20 UTC 
Description of Problem:

Current cups doesn't have include support for koi8-r and koi8-u encodings that
are being used for Russian and Ukrainian in Red Hat Linux. There is a patch that
adds support for koi8-r, koi8-u and also Hebrew (iso8859-8) encodings.
Comment 1 Leonid Kanter 2002-01-29 13:51:43 UTC 
Created attachment 43896 [details]
patch that adds support for koi8-r, koi8-u and iso8859-8
Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-01-29 14:34:33 UTC 
Patch added in 1.1.13-1, please let me know if it works.
Comment 3 Leonid Kanter 2002-01-30 14:56:08 UTC 
Hmm, I forgot that this patch is not enough. The problem is that fonts in 
/usr/share/cups/fonts/ are without cyrillic glyphs and CUPS understand pfa
format. Fonts in /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 have all necessary cyrillic
glyphs, but they are in pfb. There are two ways to solve the problem:

1. Convert latest urw-fonts to pfa using t1ascii utility, rename to filenames
expected by CUPS and place in /usr/share/cups/fonts/. Uses much more space than
second way. 

2. Add pfb support to cups, remove fonts from /usr/share/cups/fonts/ and create
symlinks from there to /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 like this:
/usr/share/cups/fonts/AvantGarde-Book ->
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010013l.pfb and so on.

Which way would be preferable for Red Hat package? Both are verified.
Comment 4 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-01-31 12:03:14 UTC 
cups pstoraster will go away in the next release, maintaining it in 
ghostscript makes more sense.
Comment 5 Leonid Kanter 2002-02-01 14:53:53 UTC 
koi8-r and koi8-u support appeared yesterday in cups-1.1.13.
Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2002-10-07 20:53:52 UTC 
So this is fixed in 1.1.15?