What means "UIs force UTF-8" in HPLIP 2.8.5 release notes?

It was supposed to address the UTF8 issue with CUPS, but it was
unsuccessful.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Johannes Meixner <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #35351 on HPLIP:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/35351
>
> http://hplip.sourceforge.net/release_notes.html
> reads:
> ------------------------------------
> HPLIP 2.8.5
> ...
> 40. All UIs now force their locales encodings to UTF-8
> ------------------------------------
>
> Should this avoid the problem that communication with the cupsd
> fails because since CUPS version 1.3.4 communication with
> the cupsd must happen only in UTF-8 encoding or 7-bit ASCII?
>
> I.e. is this meant to fix
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/162196
> ?
>
> If yes, it does not fix this bug.
>
> I run HPLIP 2.8.5 on openSUSE Factory i386 hardware from
>
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsmeix/openSUSE_Factory/i586/
> and CUPS 1.3.7 and when I have a non-UTF-8/non-ASCII locale,
> for example
> -----------------------------------------------------
> user@host:~> locale
> LANG=en_GB.iso885915
> LC_CTYPE="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_TIME="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_COLLATE="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_MONETARY="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_PAPER="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_NAME="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.iso885915"
> LC_ALL=en_GB.iso885915
> -----------------------------------------------------
> I get the same problems and same error-message
> in /var/log/cups/error_log as described in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/162196/comments/12
>
>
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Perhaps
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/162196/comments/20
is useful to solve the UTF8 issue with CUPS.