cupsfilter 1.4.3 && CHARSET=utf-8

[Matthias Apitz]

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out with cupsfilter what the cupsd at the end of the chain of processes will finally send to the printer...

For a given UTF-8 encoded text file I can fine do the conversion to Postscript using the mappings in charsets/utf-8 and the fonts with the following commands:

$ CHARSET=utf-8; export CHARSET
$ PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/xxx.ppd; export PPD
$ texttops 1 rleigh myfile 1 "" file.utf8 > file.ps

When I do this with cupsfilter like:

$ sbin/cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/xxx.ppd -m application/vnd.cups-postscript file.utf8 > file.ps

somehow the environment CHARSET=utf-8 is not given to the filter texttops and this in turn does not look into the file charsets/utf-8 for the mapping of UTF-8 codepoints to fonts.

What I do wrong?

Thanks

matthias

[Matthias Apitz]

Post by Matthias Apitz
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out with cupsfilter what the cupsd at the end of the chain of processes will finally send to the printer...
$ CHARSET=utf-8; export CHARSET
$ PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/xxx.ppd; export PPD
$ texttops 1 rleigh myfile 1 "" file.utf8 > file.ps
$ sbin/cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/xxx.ppd -m application/vnd.cups-postscript file.utf8 > file.ps
somehow the environment CHARSET=utf-8 is not given to the filter texttops and this in turn does not look into the file charsets/utf-8 for the mapping of UTF-8 codepoints to fonts.

I digged into the sources of cups-1.4.6/scheduler/cupsfilter.c, fixed it for me and filed a bug report in:
https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4273

Matthias