Re: [debian-printing] Packaging of vendor PPD files.

[Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

A Mennucc <mennucc1@debian.org> writes:

> 
> *) one final note: the PPDs from HP where coded in 'MacStandard'
> encoding, which was detriment to gpr; I was saved by  R.A.Owen, that
> provided a script to convert them to Latin1


Some of the epson ppds come in Japanese (eg eplp880c.ppd). 

> 
> but in the long run, we may want to code them in UTF8, and/or to
> provide a way to internationalize them ( .ppd.po ? )
> 

I'm not sure which encoding they use, but having an English language
version available would be useful to me. 

Chris