Ensure that the correct version of Graphviz will be used either by setting the environment variable GRAPHVIZ_DOT or by adding dot to the search path.
German umlauts or other non ASCII characters are not shown correctly in generated graphs
Usually, this is a problem with the installation of Confluence or Graphviz.
Check your graphviz installation.
Create a file test.dot with the following content:
digraph test {
state [label="insert characters that are not shown correctly"]
}
Let graphviz create a the image. Do this as user who runs Confluence and use the same Graphviz version as Confluence. You can check this as described in PlantUML Version Information.
dot -Tpng test.dot -otest.png
Check the created test.png. If the image is correct check Confluence. If not, you have to correct your Graphviz installatoin.
Verify that all parts of your Confluence installation use the correct encoding which should be UTF-8.
Tomcat connector in conf/server.xml: URIEncoding="UTF-8"
Usually, this is a problem with the installation of Confluence or Graphviz.
Check your graphviz installation.
Create a file
test.dotwith the following content:digraph test { state [label="insert characters that are not shown correctly"] }Let graphviz create a the image. Do this as user who runs Confluence and use the same Graphviz version as Confluence. You can check this as described in PlantUML Version Information.
test.png. If the image is correct check Confluence. If not, you have to correct your Graphviz installatoin.Related Issues