CUPS - no german Umlaut characters

Peter Ulrich Kruppa ulrich at pukruppa.net
Mon Feb 9 09:57:37 PST 2009


Ewald Jenisch schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> After successfully setting up CUPS I found out a problem wrt printing
> german Umlaut characters: Whenever I try to print a file with umlaut
> characters the file is only printed up to not not including the first
> umlaut characters. This happens for example when I take a text file
> with umlaut characters and try to print it via lpr.
> 
> On the other hand, when I've got a web-page containing umlaut
> characters under Firefox3 and print that page I get the complete page
> - including umlaut characters.
> 
> Any ideas how I can get my umlauts to print via lpr?
Try some sort of filter like print/enscript:
	# enscript your_file
should get your Umlaut's.

Greetings,

Uli.

> 
> Thanks much in advance for your help,
> -ewald
> 
> 
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