CUPS error unsupported character set iso8859-1

[A Munro]

Binary package hint: cupsys

Attempting to print through CUPS server from networked computer using IPP and postscript file. CUPS responds with error message "Unsupported character set iso 8859-1" and fails to print. Access log reports "192.168.2.10 - - [19/Mar/2008:15:07:16 +0000] "POST /printers/Stylus_Photo_R220 HTTP/1.1" 200 131321 Print-Job client-error-bad-request"
Ubuntu 8.04 alpha6 CUPS 1.3.6 AMD64 Processor
Works OK on Gutsy 7.10 CUPS 1.3.2

[Jean-Michel Dault (jmdault)]

I have the same problem, on a Pentium 4 (32-bit), with 1.3.6-1ubuntu2.

If I do "LC_ALL=C lpr <something>", it works, if the locale is iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-15, it fails.

[Jean-Michel Dault (jmdault)]

It seems Debian had the same problem with another version:
http://<email address hidden>/msg120358.html

[Jean-Michel Dault (jmdault)]

Other links:
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2537
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2533
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5080

[Jean-Michel Dault (jmdault)]

A more recent bug report from Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471228

[Jean-Michel Dault (jmdault)]

http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/08e29c72aff5ea44/83350881376f6bc1?lnk=raot

[A Munro (awamunro)]

Upgrade to cupsys 1.3.7-1ubuntu1 has not cured the problem.
Postcript 2 file from networked computer still exhibits the bug.

[A Munro (awamunro)]

Intrepid Ibex still ehibits the bug, error message below:

D [09/Jul/2008:16:25:40 +0100] cupsdAcceptClient: 15 from 192.168.2.10:631 (IPv4)
D [09/Jul/2008:16:25:40 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST /printers/Stylus-Photo-R220 HTTP/1.1
D [09/Jul/2008:16:25:40 +0100] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
E [09/Jul/2008:16:25:41 +0100] Unsupported character set "iso8859-1"!
D [09/Jul/2008:16:25:41 +0100] Discarding unused server-audit event...
D [09/Jul/2008:16:25:41 +0100] Print-Job client-error-bad-request: Unsupported character set "iso8859-1"!
D [09/Jul/2008:16:25:41 +0100] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 15 status_code=400 (client-error-bad-request)

[A Munro (awamunro)]

Ubuntu 8.10 release with Cupsys 1.3.9-2 still exhibits this error.
Surely it should support iso8859-1 which is the European standard!

The error is the same as above.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

As CUPS in Ubuntu and Debian is the same this should also be fixed in Ubuntu. Closing ...