[rrd-users] rrdtool 1.3 and Umlaut characters

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Richard,

try

env LANG=en_US rrdtool ...

cheers
tobi


Today u7l11ey at mail.lrz-muenchen.de wrote:

> Hi rrdtool community,
>
> after upgrading the rrdtool version from 1.2.28 to 1.3.1 on my NSLU2
> running Debian lenny, German Umlaut characters and some others are not
> displayed correctly any more:
>
> Before:
> http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~u7l11ey/webserver/webdata/solar/heiz_28.08.2008.png
>
> After:
> http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~u7l11ey/webserver/webdata/solar/heiz_24.png
>
> I understand this comes from the complete redesign of the graphing engine
> using Cairo/Pango, but since I don't know anything about these components,
> I don't know what and where I have to work on the configuration to get
> this fixed.
>
> My script that generates the graphs gives error messages like this:
> Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
>
> Please give me a hint on how to get the Umlaut and other special
> characters displayed correctly again.
>
> Additional question: Is there a way to make the new rrdtool produce JPEG
> graphs instead of PNG? If not, is there a better way to convert PNG to
> JPEG than using ImageMagick's "convert" tool?
>
> Regards, Richard
>
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