Bug#293178: cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data: Bogus UTF-8 characters in PPDs

[Richard Cohen]

Roger Leigh wrote:
Thanks for letting me know.  Are these packages the normal Debian
ones, or have they been built from the upstream release tarball?
Debian ones.
The current Debian packages don't translate the PPDs, so you should
have plain ASCII/US English.  
Yes.
If you look in the CUPS web interface,
are any of the configuration labels and parameters in English
(i.e. British English).  I build the packages in an en_GB UTF-8
locale, but this shouldn't affect anything.
If I try to configure my Epson Stylus Color in the web interface,
I get choices like "360 Ã  90 DPI Fast Economy Draft", so CUPS is 
confused too. Otherwise, the page *was* in a mixture of British & 
American English. eg.

    Image Type: Four Colors
      Ink Type: Four Colour Standard
but those are from the PPD. ;)
Strangely, and similarly buggily, CUPS is serving it as
    Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-15
This isn't a new bug by the way -- I noticed it about a year ago.
Richard.