Ubuntu
system-config-printer package

  1. Bug #437997
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 437997

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Thenk you all for your postings of the dnssd output. I have found the problem now: It is caused by UTF-8 characters in the printer descriptions of remote CUPS queues, especially from Mac OS X systems.

This prevents the new printer wizard of system-config-printer to work at all if there is somewhere a CUPS queue in the network which uses UTF-8 characters in the printer description. This is nearly always the case if there are Mac OS X machines. Even local printers cannot get installed then. One can also see on the number of duplicates that this bug is of high impact. Therefore I am raising the importance of this bug and propose it as a freeze exception for Karmic.

The fix (patch attached) is a one-liner, no risk of regressions.