[Bug 1073247] Re: a2x: pdf output fails with german umlauts in labels

[Oliver Burtchen]

At least on Ubuntu 12.04 it seems there are two Problems involved:

1. asciidoc does not convert german-umlauts in xref-labels for the xml-output.
A workaround is to manually give plain ascii xref-labels if a header contains german umlauts and you need the xreference. Otherwise just ignore them.

2. texlive is not installed with utf-support by default, so pdflatex are unable to parse the generated output from asciidoc.
On Ubuntu you have to install the cyrillic-texlive package, which includes utf8 support.

sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-cyrillic

Now you have to tell asciidoc and dblatex to use it

a2x -a encoding=utf-8 -a lang=de --dblatex-opts='-P latex.encoding=utf8
-P latex.unicode.use=1' -v test.asciidoc

This works well with umlauts, but probably fails with the german sharp s
(ß). So you have to set manual xrefs here, even if you don't use them.

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Title:
  a2x: pdf output fails with german umlauts in labels

Status in “asciidoc” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Description:	Ubuntu 12.10
  Release:	12.10

  asciidoc:
    Installiert: 8.6.7-1
    Kandidat:    8.6.7-1
    Versionstabelle:
   *** 8.6.7-1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  Using german umlauts in headers or labels makes a2x -f pdf
  test.asciidoc fail. test.asciidoc is written in UTF-8.

  ...
  pdflatex -interaction=batchmode test.tex
  pdflatex failed
  test.aux:25: Missing \endcsname inserted.
  test.aux:25: leading text: ...ne erste �berschrift\relax }{section.1}{}}
  test.aux:30: Missing \endcsname inserted.
  test.aux:30: leading text: ...1}{1}{\refname \relax }{subsection.2.1}{}}
  Unexpected error occured
  Error: pdflatex compilation failed

  a2x: ERROR: "dblatex" -t pdf -p "/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl" -s "/etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty"  -V  "/home/guenther/fh/3.Sem/wiw464_PLM/Winkelmann/test.xml" returned non-zero exit status 1
  ...

  Trying the same with tex output (a2x -f tex test.asciidoc) shows, that
  umlauts in labels are not converted to latin1.

  The bug seems to be known in Debian:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622359#10

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