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Title: system-config-printer crash UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1441: invalid continuation byte (only UTF-8-encoded PPD files can be used) Status in system-config-printer package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in system-config-printer source package in Trusty: In Progress Status in system-config-printer source package in Utopic: Fix Committed Bug description: system-config-printer crash with the following traceback : sramage@japc09:~$ system-config-printer Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncipp.py", line 191, in send_reply handler (self._conn, result) File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncpk1.py", line 164, in _ipp_reply_handler self._client_reply_handler (self._conn, *args) File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncconn.py", line 91, in reply_handler self._reply_handler (self, self._reply_data, *args) File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncconn.py", line 209, in _subst_reply_handler reply_handler (self, *args) File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdcache.py", line 79, in <lambda> self._got_ppd3 (c, name, r, callback), File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdcache.py", line 153, in _got_ppd3 self.fetch_ppd (name, callback, check_uptodate=False) File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdcache.py", line 90, in fetch_ppd tmpf.writelines (f.readlines ()) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 313, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1441: invalid continuation byte [Impact] It is impossible to set up or manipulate a printer with a PPD file which is not UTF-8-encoded and no plain ASCII. Even worse, if such a PPD is installed into the system's PPD repository, the corresponding printer(s) will not auto-setup. [Test Case] Take a PPD file which is not UTF-8-encoded, for example a PPD file for Windows with Windows-1252 encoding. Try to set up a que with it or to change an existing queue to use it by means of system-config-printer. system-config-printer will crash. With the proposed package the PPD can be used without problems. [Regression Potential] The changes are very simple and therefore the regression potential is low. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/1400232/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
