[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#496501: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#496501: cups: samba can't see printers with iso-8859-1

[Steve Langasek]

forcemerge 462543 496501
thanks

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:32:32PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Kevin Mitchell [2008-08-25  1:47 -0700]:

> > and the command above returns no printers. I found that it was necessary to add
> > 
> >    display charset = UTF8
> > 
> > into /etc/samba/smb.conf to force samba to use utf8 even if the system default is iso-8859-1. 

> > That seems to fix things. I would speculate that the reason samba sees
> > printers on boot is that it is started before the default system locale
> > is applied. 

> Ideally Samba should only use ASCII and UTF-8 to talk to cups and
> configure printers. Tentatively reassigning to samba then, the charset
> setting should become a hardcoded default for printer shares (at least
> for the cups ones).

Yes, this has been reported previously; merging.

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