[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#452007: cupsys-bsd: Cannot print anything if LANG is set to zh_TW.Big5

[Ambrose Li]

Package: cupsys-bsd
Version: 1.3.4-1
Severity: important
Tags: l10n


Printing anything from almost any program causes the unintuitive
error message

lpr: Unsupported character set "windows-950"!

Printing from OpenOffice.org causes the even more unintuitive error
message "Error while printing".

This error appears EVEN if -l or -o raw is specified. (This is
absolutely impossible, since -o raw implies that the charset is
completely irrelevant.)

If I can specify a print command, then LANG=C lpr... can work around
the problem. But Debian's OpenOffice.org does not allow the user to
specify the print command, so this bug effectively disables printing
from OpenOffice.org.

Printing has worked fine until a recent update.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.2
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 (charmap=BIG5)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cupsys-bsd depends on:
ii  cupsys-client                 1.3.4-1    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cupsys-common                 1.3.4-1    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.16     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsys2                    1.3.0-3    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  update-inetd                  4.27-0.6   inetd.conf updater

Versions of packages cupsys-bsd recommends:
ii  cupsys                        1.3.4-1    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 

-- debconf information:
* cupsys-bsd/setuplpd: true