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Subject:    Re: [cups.general] CUPS character set  (Ticket091911A)
From:       Michael Sweet <msweet () apple ! com>
Date:       2011-09-19 21:20:42
Message-ID: ADAB9984-2171-4716-A3BD-35B17A42721F () apple ! com
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On Sep 19, 2011, at 1:32 PM, ed smith wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Does CUPS even reference a character set when printing as a raw device?

No, raw means "pass this to the printer without changing it".

> We use Oracle Pasta upstream for all of our conversions and our printers have \
> postscript modules installed, which has worked for several years. But some of our \
> latin characters (accents) print as garbage. this is a solaris platform and the \
> locales are set correctly, as the files display correctly with other utilities such \
> as more and vi.


PostScript and Solaris default to different character sets, and PostScript doesn't \
natively support UTF-8. Your PS output needs to include the character set definition \
and/or embed fonts in order to reproduce all of the characters you use.

________________________________________________________________________
Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair





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