hp-print fails to open paths with non-ascii characters (fix expected in 1.6.9)

[iouri]

Binary package hint: hplip

When I try to add a file, the name of which contains non-ascii characters (e.g. "/home/data/Photos numériques/2006_01_01/01_02_57.jpg"), using the "Add file to list" button of hp-print GUI, I get the following error in the terminal:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/hplip/ui/printerform.py", line 239, in addFileButton_clicked
    log.debug("results: %s" % results)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in
position 21: ordinal not in range(128)
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and the file is not added to the list.

This does not occur if I lauch hp-print by appending the filename :
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$ hp-print -dprinter "/home/data/Photos numériques/2006_01_01/01_02_57.jpg"
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opens hp-print with file "/home/data/Photos numériques/2006_01_01/01_02_57.jpg" already in the list, and then I can print using the "Print" button.

[dwelch91 (dwelch91)]

This has been fixed in HPLIP 1.6.9, due out Sept. 15th.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

According to HP, this release should fix the bug.