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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830

Description of problem:
dia does not use the -urw-* fonts installed with X11 and falls back
to  -adbobe-courier-*.  It is looking for the -adobe-* ones.  If you install the
urw-aliases package from the dia home page, it does not find the fonts, because
the font names are translated.

In UTF-8 encoding every other letter drawn on the screen is blank.  When you
export the file to postscript, text will use half the box.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
2. start dia
3. draw a UML class diagram
4. save the diagram.
5. export it to post script.

Actual Results:  I get a lot of messages telling me that all fonts needed cannot
be found, every other character of text you enter is a blank on the screen. 
When you export the file to post script, those blanks do not appear, but the
boxes are twice as wide as they ought to.  

Expected Results:  It should have found all the fonts installed, because the
urw-font package is installed.  It also should have rendered the diagram
correctly...

Additional info:

If you set the locale to en_EN (by invoking LANG=en_EN dia) and install the
urw-aliases packages available from the dia faq
<http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html>, dia works as expected.