Re: Pango, UTF-8 & Latin1

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote:
> Hello:
>
> With dia+pango, I can't write Latin1 (iso8859-1) caracters. In fact, if I
> load an old dia file with latin1 characters it gives this error:
> kina.dia:69: error: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
>             <dia:string>#Hoñalán#</dia:string>
>                            ^
> kina.dia:69: error: Bytes: 0xF1 0x61 0x6C 0xE1
>             <dia:string>#Hoñalán#</dia:string>
>
> Maybe this is a silly question, but how can I manage this?
> Is it not supposed that Latin1 will be supported until everywhere is used
> UTF?

What does the that of that Dia file say?  There should be an encoding on
the very firt line.  Is this a very old file?

-Lars

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