[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#471228: Bug#471228: Cannot print any more: Print-Job client-error-bad-request: Unsupported character set "iso-8859-15"!

[Martin Pitt]

tag 471228 upstream wontfix
forwarded 471228 http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2686
thanks

Hi Christian,

Christian Hammers [2008-03-16 20:07 +0100]:
> The desktop from which I try to print from is using Debian etch with
> CUPS 1.2.7-4etch2 and locales de_DE at euro ISO-8859-15. The server is using 
> Debian sid with the same locales.
> On the client side there is no cupsd but only:
> 	# cat /etc/cups/client.conf 
> 	ServerName app109.intern
> 
> 	# cat /etc/cups/lpoptions 
> 	Default epson
> 
> I tried to print an US-ASCII text file using a2ps. The generated postscript
> file itself includes "/ISO-8859-1Encoding" if that matters. 
> 
> 
> ==> /var/log/cups/error_log <==
> E [16/Mar/2008:19:48:11 +0100] Unsupported character set "iso-8859-15"!
> D [16/Mar/2008:19:48:11 +0100] Discarding unused server-audit event...
> D [16/Mar/2008:19:48:11 +0100] Print-Job client-error-bad-request: Unsupported character set "iso-8859-15"!

This is known upstream as http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2686. Since
1.2, cupsd only supports ASCII and UTF-8 encoding of IPP requests.

Seems that upstream considers this a design decision and isn't going
to do anything about it. I won't either, I'm afraid; Adding support
for non-UTF8 locales in Debian, and maintaining this patch would be
utterly painful (aside from the fact that non-UTF8 locales should just
die, die, die! :-) ).

Do you want to keep the bug open given the situation?

Thanks, and have a good day,

Martin

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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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