[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#467117: hplip: problem with hp-toobox an locale (LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1)

[Gerard Robin]

Package: hplip
Version: 2.7.10-5
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

My variable LANG is currently set to fr_FR.ISO-8859-1

When I run hp-toolbox in a terminal (as normal user)  I get:
No installed HP devices found (in french ...)
Error: No device found or unsupported device.

If I set LANG to C, hp-toolbox gives now:

briefly: Error: no device found or unsupported device and after that
hp-toobox works fine (almost fine)

I specify that normal user is in the groups: lpadmin, scanner, fax.

How can we fix this problem ?
Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.105        add and remove users and groups
ii  coreutils                   6.10-3       The GNU core utilities
ii  cupsys                      1.3.5-1+b1   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hplip-data                  2.7.10-5     HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii  libc6                       2.7-8        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsys2                  1.3.5-1+b1   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-14        The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libsane                     1.0.19-1     API library for scanners
ii  libsnmp15                   5.4.1~dfsg-6 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libssl0.9.8                 0.9.8g-7     SSL shared libraries
ii  libusb-0.1-4                2:0.1.12-9   userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-24       Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  python                      2.4.4-6      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support              0.7.6        automated rebuilding support for p

Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii  cupsys-client            1.3.5-1+b1      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hpijs                    2.7.10+2.7.10-5 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs
ii  hpijs-ppds               2.7.10+2.7.10-5 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - HP
ii  hplip-gui                2.7.10-5        HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GU
pn  openprinting-ppds        <none>          (no description available)
ii  python-reportlab         2.1dfsg-1       ReportLab library to create PDF do

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