diff -up system-config-printer-1.4.1/system-config-printer.py.utf8-978970 system-config-printer-1.4.1/system-config-printer.py

--- system-config-printer-1.4.1/system-config-printer.py.utf8-978970	2013-07-02 12:51:32.083930404 +0100

+++ system-config-printer-1.4.1/system-config-printer.py	2013-07-02 12:53:25.668419559 +0100

@@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@ class GUI(GtkGUI):

             self.rename_entry_sigids.append ((editable, id))

     def printer_name_editing (self, entry):

-        newname = origname = unicode (entry.get_text())

+        newname = origname = entry.get_text().decode ('utf-8')

         newname = newname.replace("/", "")

         newname = newname.replace("#", "")

         newname = newname.replace(" ", "")