Re: dia 0.97.1 does not accepts argument with iso8859-2 via command line

[Kaminar <Kaminar seznam cz>]

Hello Steffen,

> On 08/27/2010 10:43 AM, Kaminar wrote:
> > I have set locales to cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 on FreeBSD 8.1 and I use
> > ISO8859-2 characters in my file names.
> > I use converting dia diagram to EPS format via command line.
> > But from version dia 0.97.1 when I convert diagrams to EPS,
> > dia gets error message and nothing converts:
> >
> > $ dia -t eps filename-with-iso8859-2-characters.dia
> > Missing input: filename-with-iso8859-2-characters.dia
> >
> > In previous versions of dia (e.g. 0.97) everithing goes fine.
> Handling of commandline arguments was changed in Dia 0.97.1 in order to
> allow
> passing of URI-style filenames. See bug #570592 [1] for the details.
> Do you have an example filename to reproduce your problem?

There are some examples of filenames which contains localized
characters form iso-8859-2. But I don't know how localized character
from my post will be looked like in mailing list.

$ dia -t eps zkušebnísouborsčeštinou.dia
Missing input: zkušebnísouborsčeštinou.dia

Another examples of filenames with localized chars:
ěščřžýáíéťďňúů.dia
jméno.dia
název.dia

If in filenames is any character from iso-8859-2 which isn't
from pure ASCII, Dia refuse this input given from cmd line.


> For the time being, I see two possible workarounds for you:
>
> * Use plain ASCII filenames that do not cause problems.

So, it is big problem for me, because I have much work in Dia and
I used it in many Makefiles, TeX sources files, etc.


> * Pass URI-style filenames

I don't know exactly right syntax of URI filenames. Could you give me an
example of URI-style name for Dia, e.g. for my examples of filenames
above? I will try it with Dia.


> I assume that you're able to open those files from within Dia.

Yes. Within Dia GUI everything works fine. Only little bug is with
producing EPS export through menu Export/Encapsulated Postscript
(using Pango fonts) (*.eps). In exported EPS source file at line
beginning with "%%Title:", the file name of Dia diagram is with UTF-8
coding regardless to locale settings. But it is not so important.


Sorry for my bad english. I hope it is not so horrible.

Best regards
Karel