Re: dia 0.90RC3

[Vitaly Lipatov <LAV VL3143 spb edu>]

On 4 ÐÑÐÑ 2002 11:26, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Tue, Jun 04, 2002, Ã 12:20:53AM +0400, Vitaly Lipatov a Ãcrit:
> > > > In old files russian letters looks like
> > > > <dia:string>#&#235;&#207;&#206;&#212;&#210;&#207;&#204;&#204;&#197;
> > > > &#240;&#254;#</dia:string>
> > >
> > > Can you send us a very small UTF-8 or KOI-8-R encoded text file with
> > > the same text as inside this <dia:string> element ? (please be sure to
> > > specify which encoding...)
> >
> > One attached.
>
> I needed a _text_ file, not a text object in a dia file...
Sorry for misunderstanding.
I will try to prepare it.

> Can you send me a _text_ file encoded as KOI8-R or UTF-8 (either is fine,
> emacs should detect that anyway and I know how it's supposed to look like
> ;-) ) with the _exact_ same textual content as the dia file you've sent ?
Ok, will later.

> > > You may want to manually tweak the encoding="..." property of the <?xml
> > > ?> meta-tag.
> >
> > I did it but I get SIGSEGV:
> > [lav lav dia]$ dia test.dia
> >
> > GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
> > test.dia:1: error: Unsupported encoding koi8-r
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="koi8-r"?>
>
> Try setting the encoding in uppercase ?
>
> Does iconv(1) recognise the encoding "koi8-r" as is ?
>
> (ie, can you pipe a KOI8-R file through
>       iconv -f koi8-r -t utf-8  | iconv -f utf-8 -t koi8-r
> and get back your data ?)
yes, it is works correctly.
You can try with cp1251 or cp1252 I think
> > I should like where "error: Unsupported encoding koi8-r" produced?
> > I can't found it place.
>
> It is possible that this comes from libxml1.
Is to libxml2 migrating too hard?

Can I convert  #&#235;&#207 etc to human readable by iconv or some utilities?
I think libxml1 does not support russian encodings correctly :(
It library is too old it is not recommended to use.

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Lav
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