Posted by Clemens on Feb 18, 2019; 11:59am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Umlauts-in-Asciidoctor-Diagram-tp6747.html

Hello,

last topic on my "Get things working in Asciidoctor-pdf" is the following.

I create a diagram using asciidoctor-diagram with ditaa.
Everything works fine, except one thing. As I write in german I use umlauts like "ä,ö,ü,ß".

Unfortunately they are shown as squares in the diagram. Everywhere else in the document they are shown correctly.

I defined the encoding in my Asciidoc file as UTF-8 (:encoding: utf-8) and also my my text editor is set to UTF-8.

When I do the rendering with firefox plugin, everything works flawlessly.

I assume that asciidoctor-diagram plugin takes a wrong encoding from somewhere, but I don't know how to change that.

I hope that's the correct place to post, as asciidoctor-diagram or ditaa plugin might be the place to search for the problem.

Thank you for your suggestions.

Best regards,

Clemens