Re: postscript encoding

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le Sun, May 26, 2002, à 04:37:03PM +0200, Jacek Pop?awski a écrit:

> Dear Dia developers.
> I read you released rc1 and rc2, and you have only few bug raports. I don't
> know if it's a bug or just missed feature, but I can't export postscript with
> correct encoding (other than ISO-8859-1) - in place where my national letters
> should be - I see "plus/minus" and other characters. 
> I know I can export to png/jpg then convert to ps, but this is waste of
> quality. I know I could use postscript tools to fix national letters, but I
> don't know hot to do this.
> Please remember, that encoding is important issue for non-ISO-8859-1 users.


We are completely aware that non-latin1 is very important. In fact, we
believe we have put whatever we needed to do here. I assume your report
applies to RC2, not 0.88.1. 0.88.1 did lack some code in that aspect
(specifically, there was some experimental code which wasn't on by default)

Please send to the list the following things:
        - what parameters you have passed to your ./configure command line
        - your locale ($LC_ALL)
        - a dia file including some non-ASCII characters
        - a PNG screenshot of that diagram as displayed on your screen
        - and EPS export of that dia file.

If something's wrong, I hope we can detect and fix it in time.

If you were running 0.88.1, and your EPS file shows the ASCII subset of the
text in a readable form, then it means you were not running the UTF-8 aware
code, and needed to run ogongkify on the output. We strive to get rid of
that (actually, ogonkify won't run with dia 0.90.RC2's output)

        -- Cyrille

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