Bug#574637: python-cupsutils: Problem parsing PPD attributes : UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode

[Olivier Berger]

Package: python-cupsutils
Version: 1.0.0-6
Severity: normal

Hi.

I've tried and configure a Canon imagerunner 3225 printer using system-config-printer, and get the following traces :

raceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/system-config-printer", line 4317, in on_tvNPModels_cursor_changed
    self.fillDriverList(self.NPMake, pmodel)
  File "/usr/bin/system-config-printer", line 4280, in fillDriverList
    self.NPDrivers = self.ppds.orderPPDNamesByPreference(ppds.keys()) 
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/cupsutils/ppds.py", line 378, in orderPPDNamesByPreference
    ppdnamelist.sort (sort_ppdnames)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/cupsutils/ppds.py", line 356, in sort_ppdnames
    ca = is_C_locale (a)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/cupsutils/ppds.py", line 342, in is_C_locale
    elif x[i - 1] not in string.letters:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xaa in position 52: unexpected code byte


Here's the contents of the (I hope) corresonding description in /usr/share/ppd/openprinting.org-gs/Canon/Canon-imageRunner_3225-pxlmono.ppd.gz :

*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion:   "1.1"
*LanguageVersion: English 
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*PCFileName:    "PXLMONO.PPD"
*Manufacturer:  "Canon"
*Product:       "(imageRunner 3225)"
*cupsVersion:   1.0
*cupsManualCopies: True
*cupsModelNumber:  2
*cupsFilter:    "application/vnd.cups-postscript 100 foomatic-rip"
*cupsFilter:    "application/vnd.cups-pdf 0 foomatic-rip"
*cupsFilter:    "application/vnd.apple-pdf 25 foomatic-rip"
*%pprRIP:        foomatic-rip other
*ModelName:     "Canon imageRunner 3225"
*ShortNickName: "Canon imageRunner 3225 pxlmono"
*NickName:      "Canon imageRunner 3225 Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended)"


I believe the error shouldn't be silently displayed on the stdout, whereas nothing appears wrong in the GUI (but an empty driver list... maybe smae problem as in #530263 btw ?).

Then of course, there's also a bug somewhere.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-cupsutils depends on:
ii  python                        2.5.4-9    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-cups                   1.9.48-1   Python bindings for CUPS
ii  python-elementtree            1.2.6-14   Light-weight toolkit for XML proce
ii  python-support                1.0.6.1    automated rebuilding support for P

python-cupsutils recommends no packages.

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