On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Hans Breuer wrote:
> At 20:50 19.03.01 +0100, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> >Oh, (sorry, I sorely lacked time to report this) ; when exporting files with
> >ISO8859-1 characters (such as éèàâê) (\'e\`e\'a\^a\^e in latexish) into WMF,
> >it looks like something in the process converts stuff into UTF8, but doesn't
> >do it all the way: in the final printout, you see two characters for each
> >original accented character (ie, you get éèà âê for the previous
> >string).
>
> The "something" which converts to UTF8 is apparently libxml. I've changed
> the wmf plug-in to use g_utf8_to_utf16 () and TextOutW, which finally does
> the trick.
At the moment, dia works a lot better with libxml 1.x. libxml2 does weird
stuff to non UTF-8 strings when it is expecting UTF-8. The way to fix
this is to change over to using unicode for the file format. I suppose
this will be post 0.87 though.
James.
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