Bug#257145: cannot export to EPS if Umlauts are used in the diagram

Roland Stigge Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>, 257145-quiet@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:13:26 +0200


Hi,

thanks for the report.

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:36, Marc Haber wrote:
> Create a diagram. Insert an arbitrary labeled shape. Use an Umlaut in
> the label and try to export the diagram to EPS. The error message is
> "Can't convert string berwachung: Invalid byte sequence in conversion
> input".

What do you mean with "labeled"?

I tried with a UML class called "Überwachung". With EPS/Pango output, it
works for me, with EPS/PostScript-Latin-1 the result makes funny
characters (Japanese call it "mojibake" :) out of the Umlaut.

Is this the same bug?

bye,
  Roland