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Bug 70057

Summary:	a2ps exits with unknown encoding `utf-8'
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Jim Wiedman <jim>
Component:	a2ps	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	limbo	CC:	gczarcinski
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	65252, 67217

Description Jim Wiedman 2002-07-29 19:26:19 UTC

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Description of problem:
When I type a2ps and any option (but --help), the program quits with
the following error message:

a2ps: unknown encoding `utf-8'

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a2ps at the prompt.
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  Only the error message.  No postscript is produced.

Expected Results:  I expected postscript data to be sent to the printer.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Gene Czarcinski 2002-08-01 21:52:13 UTC

verified on 7.3.93

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2002-08-05 08:48:09 UTC

Which locale are you using?

Comment 3 Gene Czarcinski 2002-08-05 09:12:16 UTC

US, English.

I just checked and LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2002-08-05 09:40:39 UTC

Well, a2ps doesn't support UTF-8 yet.  Does it mostly work if you put: 
 
utf-8     iso1 
 
at the end of /usr/share/a2ps/encoding/encoding.map?

Comment 5 Gene Czarcinski 2002-08-05 09:58:59 UTC

works for me but I hope that does not screw anyone else

Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2002-08-05 10:16:35 UTC

It's the behaviour that previous versions (before the automatic-encoding 
patch) had at least. 
 
Fixed package is 4.13b-24.

Comment 7 Jay Turner 2002-08-05 15:32:08 UTC

Fix confirmed with a2ps-4.13b-24.

Comment 8 Michel Lind 2011-05-26 12:33:29 UTC

*** Bug 706666 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***