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

Marc Haber Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>, 257145@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:36:16 +0200


Package: dia
Version: 0.93-4
Severity: normal

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 Überwachung: Invalid byte sequence in conversion
input".

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-vash
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dia depends on:
ii  dia-common                  0.93-4       Diagram editor (common files)
ii  dia-libs                    0.93-4       Diagram editor (library files)
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-5     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.6.1-2      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6                2.1.7-2.1    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.4.2-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.4.3-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.4.0-4      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0                  1.2.5.0-6    PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libxml2                     2.6.10-3     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1.1-3  compression library - runtime

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