Re: [Phpprintipp] Re: PHP p rintipp, problème d'encodage avec CUPS

[Thomas Harding]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:45:51PM +0800, Romain Pontida wrote:
> >the user complains about utf-8 data printed as iso-8859-1

> >[Note: you shall use a CUPS server, as most print server won't support
> >utf-8]

> >you'll got supported data types by getPrinterAttributes()
> >operation
> >(see phpprintipp command (CVS HEAD version), or
> ><http://www.nongnu.org/phpprintipp/usage> for implementation samples)

> >php::print::ipp is transparent against data, only meta-data are
[...]
> >so the solution is to send the good meta-data


> >[sample for CUPS]
> >
> >#####################################
> >$ipp->setMimeMediaType('text/plain');
> >$ipp->setCharset('utf-8');
> >$ipp->printJob();
> >#####################################

> OK, thank you for answering quickly.
> 
> I I didn't succeed in making it work with CUPS. I was indeed using the  
> last version, but since anyway I want to use it with other printer  
> servers than CUPS afterwards, I decided to convert unicode characters  
> to their ASCII equivalents as much as I could.

That's a solution. Personnaly I rely on a CUPS server, because it is
safer than low-costs or printer-integrated print servers (CUPS handle
them better than my backend ;), and because I use most of time pdf
documents  (=> $ipp->setMimeMediaType('application/pdf');) produced
with fpdf class.

This allows a good rendering, tables construction, compound documents
(image inclusion)...

> I'm planning to distribute a drupal module based on your great work.
                                                           ^[1]
Good :) The CVS version is stable, so I point you on:
#############
cvs -z3 \
-d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/phpprintipp co \
phpprintipp 
#############

One thing you can do if you plan to redistribute it is to totally
re-indent the code "à la C", because it is currently quite unreadable
for everyone except me (and each time it gives me headashes) :/
So, if you plan to do it, feel free to send me, or to the list, the 
patched version (I'm very lazy!), so I will update the CVS from.

[1] This is not a great work, but a painful job :) -- it consists to
    read the related RFCs and concatenate the good character strings...
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