Problems Printing the Euro Symbol 2006-02-09 - By Craig White
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On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 18:25 -0500, Tom Sightler wrote:
> We currently have a central CUPS print server running on RHEL3 which
> hosts about 225 printers, mostly HP LaserJet printers. Recently, a new
> requirement has been the ability to print text files that contain the
> Euro symbol. I didn't think this would be a problem since the systems
> run the standard UTF-8 (See http://UTF-8.ora-code.com) setup, but as it turns out there appears to be
> some issues here.
>
> Basically, we have a simple, UTF-8 (See http://UTF-8.ora-code.com) encoded text file that contains the
> Euro symbol (???). We can view the file in vi or pretty much any other
> way, but when we try to print it using either the lp or lpr command we
> get a garbage character instead of the symbol.
>
> If we transfer the file to a RHEL4 box, or a Fedora Core 4 system, and
> print it through the very same print server, it comes out fine.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior? What are we missing?
>
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a shot in the dark...
RHEL 4
# cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_US.UTF-8 (See http://UTF-8.ora-code.com)"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8 (See http://UTF-8.ora-code.com):en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
RHEL 3
# cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US:en"
SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
SYSFONTACM="iso01"
Craig
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