current cups can't handle PPD encoded in JIS83-RKSJ right

[Naruhiko Ogasawara]

When I use an attached PPD encoded in JIS83-RKSJ (Shift JIS Japanese; traditional Japanese PPD encoding), most of applications including CUPS Web UI, system-config-printer or gtk-print can't display item names. See attached screenshot of CUPS Web UI and SCP.

This bug is reproduced in Oneiric and Precise both, but I haven't tried older version or other distros yet.

It seems upstream bug but I can't find STR on CUPS.BUGS.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: cups 1.5.0-8ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 26 12:13:26 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110803.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 30515EJ
Papersize: a4
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-15-generic root=UUID=10880fa0-c788-489b-a013-1fa7690bcc94 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: cups
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-21 (65 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/20/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 8RET26WW (1.08 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 30515EJ
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8RET26WW(1.08):bd06/20/2011:svnLENOVO:pn30515EJ:pvrThinkPadX120e:rvnLENOVO:rn30515EJ:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 30515EJ
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X120e
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Naruhiko Ogasawara (naruoga)]

In addition, CUPS and related modules can handle generic (multilingual) PPD right; actually EPSON PX-503A by EPSON installed via S-C-P automatic download install.

[Naruhiko Ogasawara (naruoga)]

I tried 10.04 LTS (uses CUPS 1.4.3-1) and it worked fine, so it seems upstream bug. I report the issue in CUPS.BUGS:

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4026+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+M20+Q

[papukaija (papukaija)]

From upstream report: "Shift-JIS support was re-added in CUPS 1.5.2" which means that this bug is fixed in Precise. Thanks for the report and please feel to report any other other issues that you may have with Ubuntu.