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

[Joseph]

Hi,

Ok, I wasn't clear: IMHO this is not a bug but a configuration issue. You're just using a2x without the correct parameters.
If you want a2x/asciidoc to support utf-8 characters in the titles you have to use it with one of the following:
 - use the ascii-ids attribute (see section ids in official documentation and what Lex answered in the given google group link)
 - disable the section ids unsetting sectids (see section ids in official documentation)
 - give manually an ascii id to the section (see section ids in official documentation)
 - use the latex.encoding and latex.unicode.use attributes as mentionned above
 - use FOP instead of dblatex

If you want to use one of those solutions permanently, use a
configuration file (see official documentation for more information
about custom configuration files).

Best,
Joseph

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

Status in “asciidoc” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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