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Bug 70057 - a2ps exits with unknown encoding `utf-8'
Summary: a2ps exits with unknown encoding `utf-8'
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: a2ps
Version: limbo
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
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Blocks: 65252 67217
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-29 19:26 UTC by Jim Wiedman
Modified: 2011-05-26 19:20 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-08-05 10:16:43 UTC
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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. ***
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