Bug#387752: cups-pdf: support UTF-8

2007-07-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:27:14PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > I am still interested to know what your findings are for the tests > I outlined. In the meantime, I'm reassigning this bug to the > appropriate package (cupsys) and filing a bug report with upstream > about the issue. Note: Filed ups

Bug#387752: cups-pdf: support UTF-8

2007-07-16 Thread Roger Leigh
reassign 387752 cupsys tags 387752 + confirmed upstream thanks On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 11:04:53PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:12:19AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >the experiment that Roger recommended? > > > > I believe I need one liners I can send to /bin/sh a

Bug#387752: cups-pdf: support UTF-8

2006-10-01 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi folks, This is definitely not a cups-pdf issue. Some comments from the preceding discussion: 1) a2ps is 8-bit only. It is unlikely to support UTF-8 properly without a full rewrite, from what I have read. Upstream don't seem to have this as a high priority, so IMO we need another tool

Bug#387752: cups-pdf: support UTF-8

2006-09-24 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sun, September 24, 2006 19:56, Dan Jacobson wrote: > MR> "About the CJK issue: there are only a few text->PS converters that > MR> support CJK correctly. Usually we Japanese use a2ps or a2ps-perl-ja > MR> with the encoding option, before printing (it means that we don't > MR> trust any PPD to co

Bug#387752: cups-pdf: support UTF-8

2006-09-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
MR> "About the CJK issue: there are only a few text->PS converters that MR> support CJK correctly. Usually we Japanese use a2ps or a2ps-perl-ja with MR> the encoding option, before printing (it means that we don't trust any PPD MR> to correctly handle any CJK encoding)." Well that is nice bug all

Bug#387752: cups-pdf: support UTF-8

2006-09-24 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sat, September 16, 2006 15:21, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: cups-pdf > Version: 2.4.1-1 > Severity: normal > > Support UTF-8, so one can do > $ date|lp > and not have characters missing. Kenshi Muto, the key maintainer of CUPS commented over IRC that: "About the CJK issue: there are only a f

Bug#387752: cups-pdf: support UTF-8

2006-09-17 Thread Volker Christian Behr
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 17:15, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > 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,

Bug#387752: cups-pdf: support UTF-8

2006-09-16 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
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

Bug#387752: cups-pdf: support UTF-8

2006-09-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: cups-pdf Version: 2.4.1-1 Severity: normal Support UTF-8, so one can do $ date|lp and not have characters missing. -- System Information: Locale: LANG=zh_TW.utf8, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?