Comment 7 for bug 1480152

Tested version 3.18.4 on Arch, the problem is still there. The proposed patch has not been applied :

% hp-probe -bnet
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.4)
(...)
\Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hp-probe", line 162, in <module>
    devices = device.probeDevices([b], timeout, ttl, filter_dict, search, method)
  File "/usr/share/hplip/base/device.py", line 487, in probeDevices
    detected_devices = slp.detectNetworkDevices(ttl, timeout)
  File "/usr/share/hplip/base/slp.py", line 115, in detectNetworkDevices
    x= to_string_utf8(x)
  File "/usr/share/hplip/base/sixext.py", line 113, in to_string_utf8
    return s.decode("utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode bytes in position 365-366: invalid continuation byte

The printer is an HP Photosmart C6480 All in One.