Package: cups Version: 2.4.10-3+deb13u2 I use GNOME with German language settings. When I wish to print to the same printer through any of the printer names “HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series” or “HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series_xxxxxx_USB” and adjust the color mode in the drop-down menu in the color tab “Farbe”, I see “Geräte-Grau”, which should actually read “Geräte-Grau”. This seems to be an encoding problem: “ä” (small Latin A with umlaut) in Unicode is U+00E4, which is 1110 0100 in binary, which transforms to 11000011 10100100 in binary in UTF-8, which is C3 A4 in hexadecimal in UTF-8, which is “ä” (capital Latin A with tilde, currency sign) in ISO/IEC 8859-1.
The relevant .ppd files seem to have "Geräte" correctly in UTF-8: # rgrep --color -C1 "Ger.*Grau" /etc/cups/ppd/*HP* /etc/cups/ppd/HP_OfficeJet_Pro_8130e_series_xxxxxx.ppd-*ColorModel DeviceGray: "<</cupsColorSpace 0/cupsBitsPerColor 8/cupsColorOrder 0/cupsCompression 0>>setpagedevice" /etc/cups/ppd/HP_OfficeJet_Pro_8130e_series_xxxxxx.ppd:*de_DE.ColorModel DeviceGray/Geräte-Grau: "" /etc/cups/ppd/HP_OfficeJet_Pro_8130e_series_xxxxxx.ppd-*ColorModel DeviceRGB: "<</cupsColorSpace 1/cupsBitsPerColor 8/cupsColorOrder 0/cupsCompression 0>>setpagedevice" -- /etc/cups/ppd/HP_OfficeJet_Pro_8130e_series_xxxxxx_USB.ppd-*ColorModel Gray/Monochrome: "<</cupsColorSpace 18/cupsBitsPerColor 8/cupsColorOrder 0/cupsCompression 0>>setpagedevice" /etc/cups/ppd/HP_OfficeJet_Pro_8130e_series_xxxxxx_USB.ppd:*ColorModel DeviceGray/Geräte-Grau: "<</cupsColorSpace 0/cupsBitsPerColor 8/cupsColorOrder 0/cupsCompression 0>>setpagedevice" /etc/cups/ppd/HP_OfficeJet_Pro_8130e_series_xxxxxx_USB.ppd-*ColorModel DeviceRGB/Geräte-RGB: "<</cupsColorSpace 1/cupsBitsPerColor 8/cupsColorOrder 0/cupsCompression 0>>setpagedevice" -- /etc/cups/ppd/HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series.ppd-*ColorModel Gray/Monochrome: "<</cupsColorSpace 18/cupsBitsPerColor 8/cupsColorOrder 0/cupsCompression 0>>setpagedevice" /etc/cups/ppd/HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series.ppd:*ColorModel DeviceGray/Geräte-Grau: "<</cupsColorSpace 0/cupsBitsPerColor 8/cupsColorOrder 0/cupsCompression 0>>setpagedevice" /etc/cups/ppd/HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series.ppd-*ColorModel DeviceRGB/Geräte-RGB: "<</cupsColorSpace 1/cupsBitsPerColor 8/cupsColorOrder 0/cupsCompression 0>>setpagedevice" -- /etc/cups/ppd/HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series.ppd.O-*ColorModel Gray/Monochrome: "<</cupsColorSpace 18/cupsBitsPerColor 8/cupsColorOrder 0/cupsCompression 0>>setpagedevice" /etc/cups/ppd/HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series.ppd.O:*ColorModel DeviceGray/Geräte-Grau: "<</cupsColorSpace 0/cupsBitsPerColor 8/cupsColorOrder 0/cupsCompression 0>>setpagedevice" /etc/cups/ppd/HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series.ppd.O-*ColorModel DeviceRGB/Geräte-RGB: "<</cupsColorSpace 1/cupsBitsPerColor 8/cupsColorOrder 0/cupsCompression 0>>setpagedevice" # uchardet /etc/cups/ppd/*HP* /etc/cups/ppd/HP-HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series.ppd: ASCII /etc/cups/ppd/HP_OfficeJet_Pro_8130e_series_xxxxxx.ppd: UTF-8 /etc/cups/ppd/HP_OfficeJet_Pro_8130e_series_xxxxxx_USB.ppd: UTF-8 /etc/cups/ppd/HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series.ppd: UTF-8 /etc/cups/ppd/HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series.ppd.O: UTF-8 The problem is not universal for all drivers/connections of the same printer: “HP-HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series” doesn't have the gray option at all, and when using “HP-OfficeJet-Pro-8130e-series_xxxxxx”, the print dialog correctly shows “Geräte-Grau”. Please fix the encoding issue. Gratefully!
