[Bug 90318] Windows workgroups unusable when in Korean

Daengbo daengbo at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 07:44:30 UTC 2007


Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-cups-manager

I recently moved to Korea and am attempting to print to a network
printer. Gnome-cups-manager reports only a few of the computers on the
network. Some of the workgroup names and many of the computer names are
in Korean. The non-ASCII names are not reported. This represents no
problem to the Windows computers, who can communicate among the Korean
workgroups well, but keeps me from using any network access for them. I
suspect this problem would occur in other non-ASCII environments like
Thai or Chinese.

Originally using Edgy in Xubuntu, I installed ubuntu-desktop (and Gnome)
to see if the problem lay with XFCE. Further exploration with findsmb
and smbclient on the command line showed similar problems, so I suspect
the issue goes quite deep into a library I wouldn't know about.

Non-ASCII workgroups and hostnames are common in Windows environments in
Asia. Ubuntu should be able to handle them.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar  7 16:30:53 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux danielbo 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

** Affects: gnome-cups-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Windows workgroups unusable when in Korean
https://launchpad.net/bugs/90318




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