From Bugzilla Helper: 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)
With CUPS you can use "-o charset=..." to deal with this sort of thing.