RHEL is not able to print text files containing international characters like "ë é ú ü"

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Issue

  • The Common Unix printing System (CUPS) in RHEL is not able to print text files containing international characters like  "ë; é; ú; ü".
  • The printer is not able to print text file containing German 'umlaut' and special characters, for example "ä" or "ß".
  • We are having a printing issue on cups printers. The images come out all right but some pages are missing.
  • Files are printed without any umlauts.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) all versions
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS), all versions

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