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[Doudz <1400232@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On my system the bug was caused by a PPD encoded in Windows-1252 instead of UTF-8.
After re-encoding the file, everything was fine !

It would be cool to have an error message like "Unable to read PPD file,
please check the file".

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Title:
  system-config-printer crash UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't
  decode byte 0xe9 in position 1441: invalid continuation byte

Status in system-config-printer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  system-config-printer crash with the following traceback :

  sramage@japc09:~$ system-config-printer
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncipp.py", line 191, in send_reply
      handler (self._conn, result)
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncpk1.py", line 164, in _ipp_reply_handler
      self._client_reply_handler (self._conn, *args)
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncconn.py", line 91, in reply_handler
      self._reply_handler (self, self._reply_data, *args)
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncconn.py", line 209, in _subst_reply_handler
      reply_handler (self, *args)
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdcache.py", line 79, in <lambda>
      self._got_ppd3 (c, name, r, callback),
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdcache.py", line 153, in _got_ppd3
      self.fetch_ppd (name, callback, check_uptodate=False)
    File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdcache.py", line 90, in fetch_ppd
      tmpf.writelines (f.readlines ())
    File "/usr/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 313, in decode
      (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 1441: invalid continuation byte

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