Bug#881117: Printing a pdf with non-ascii title with evince fails

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

reassign 881117 hplip-data
reassign 879115 hplip-data
merge 879115 881117 818469
thanks

 


Brian - thank you for your report.

On Tue 07 Nov 2017 at 23:42:19 +0100, Brian Oney wrote:

> Package: hplip
> Version: 3.16.11+repack0-3
> 
> Package: evince
> Version: 3.22.1-3+deb9u1
> 
> Dear Debian Developers,
> I can't print a pdf with a title that has a non-ascii character (possibly) with evince. It looks like evince's handling of the pdf (ps conversion?) seems to cause it. qpdfviewer works just find. lp also works fine. The cups error log is appended but the important bit is: 
> D [07/Nov/2017:23:17:25 +0100] [Job 114] os.write(output_fd, to_bytes_utf8(\'@PJL SET JOBNAME=\"%s\"\\x0a\' % title))D [07/Nov/2017:23:17:25 +0100] [Job 114] File \"/usr/share/hplip/base/sixext.py\", line 109, in to_bytes_utf8D [07/Nov/2017:23:17:25 +0100] [Job 114] return s.encode(\"utf-8\")D [07/Nov/2017:23:17:25 +0100] [Job 114] UnicodeEncodeError: \'utf-8\' codec can\'t encode character \'\\udcc3\' in position 21: surrogates not allowed
> It looks the pdf 'Title:' may not contain an ä (or the like).
> I guess it has to be evince, but it also appears that hplip could better handle pdf metadata.
> Thanks!Brian

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> 
You could try the suggested fixes in #818469 and #879115.

Regards,

Brian.