[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#351952: cupsys: Adding <meta> for each HTML document won't work

[Frédéric Bothamy]

Followup-For: Bug #351952
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-12

Hello,

I have stumbled over this (annoying) bug in cupsys and I have tested adding the <meta>
tag in the fr/header.tmpl (with "DefaultCharset notused" in cupsd.conf).

This does not work because as specified in the HTML 4 specifications
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html) :

  conforming user agents must observe the following priorities [...]:

     1. An HTTP "charset" parameter in a "Content-Type" field.
     2. A META declaration with "http-equiv" set to "Content-Type" and a value set for "charset".
     3. The charset attribute set on an element that designates an external resource.

Here, the CUPS webserver is already sending the HTTP "charset" parameter
(as utf-8 because of DefaultCharset) in a "Content-Type" field. So the
<meta> declaration is ignored.

I would then suggest the first solution (convert files to UTF-8).

Greetings,


Fred

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.16
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.87            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.0           Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
hi  libc6                    2.3.6-7         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.1.23-12       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.1.23-12       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls12              1.2.9-2         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-3.1        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.14-7        Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-5         OpenSLP libraries
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-4         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.6-2.2     /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils               3.01-7          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-11      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.1.23-12        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20060318-2 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient               3.0.22-1         a LanManager-like simple client fo

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