Bug#623269: Fails to print files with german umlauts in locale de_DE

[Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>]

Hello,

Upstream answered:

> This isn't something we can fix in CUPS - the filename on the command-line
> is converted to UTF-8 (from the locale-specified charset) in order to
> provide the correct encoding for the print job title, but there is no way
> for us to know the proper encoding for filenames.
>
> (this problem has existed long before CUPS...)
>
> One method of dealing with this is to redirect stdin, e.g.:
>
>     lp -d printer <filename-with-special-chars

It does not change the situation, but at least a workaround exists. I
think the real solution would be to switch to de_DE.UTF-8. You can use
"# dpkg-reconfigure locales" for that.

Regards,

-- 
Stéphane Aulery