Bug 64613

Summary:	Non ASCII text files seen as raw data
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Hannu Teulahti <teu>
Component:	printconf	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Hannu Teulahti 2002-05-08 16:53:23 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Description of problem:
ISO-8859 text goes to postscript printer as raw data.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a postscript printer queue
2. print ISO-8859-1 text (scandinavian, with umlauts [edvEDV]) to queue
3.
	

Actual Results:  Text prints with stair stepping, 8bit characters are all 
wrong.


Expected Results:  Page printed correctly

Additional info:

# file *
ascii_text_file:   ASCII text
iso8859_text_file: ISO-8859 text

I tried to make a dummy printer with a file as the printer device. 7bit ascii 
text prints correctly as postscript, but 8bit ISO-8859 goes right trough 
without any formatting/filtering.

Old printtool based queues have always worked correctly
(RH Linux <= 7.1)

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-12-10 15:39:46 UTC

With CUPS you can use "-o charset=..." to deal with this sort of thing.