[Pkg-cups-devel] Re: Bug#387752: cups-pdf: support UTF-8

Sat Sep 16 15:15:31 UTC 2006

la, 2006-09-16 kello 20:21 +0800, Dan Jacobson kirjoitti:
> Package: cups-pdf
> Version: 2.4.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Support UTF-8, so one can do
> $ date|lp
> and not have characters missing.

Good point. 

However, I am not convinced that CUPS-PDF is to blame, since printing
UTF-8 text works fine from GNOME.  Here, I regularly mix Cyrillic and
Latin characters, a combination that clearly requires UTF-8 support.

I suspect that how CUPS clients and Ghostscript select fonts affect the
absence or presence of certain characters, thus why I'm copying this to
the CUPS and Ghostscript maintainers for comment.

The CUPS-PDF author is already subscribed to this package's PTS and can
probably also contribute answers to this bug report.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine
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