BUGREPORT: Umlaute in gfont

[Jan Ulrich Hasecke <nospam@thanx>]

Hello! 
Sorry I could not manage wmb,
so this a non conformistic bug-report

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:

it's crazy! 

I use gfont to generate Headlines in this way:

in template.wml:
<define-tag kapitelname> 
<gfont face=CMRoman size=2 color=#000000>%0</gfont> 
</define-tag>

in the text-file inside a lang-environment <de>:
<kapitelname "HEADLINE">

When I use no Umlaut, everything works fine.
When I use a o-Umlaut it works,
but with a- and u-Umlaut the PASS 3 fails as mentioned.

When I use the A-Umlaut I get a "broken" image.

When I use the O-Umlaut gfont never stopps and uses all the
CPU-resources.

I did not tried the U-Umlaut. 

This is my teTex-config:

binaries found by searching $PATH
tex:  /opt/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/tex
etex:  /opt/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/etex 
pdftex: /opt/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/pdftex 
omega: /opt/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/omega 
mf: /opt/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/mf 
mpost: /opt/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/mpost 
dialog: /usr/bin/dialog
dvips:  /opt/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/dvips 
xdvi: /opt/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/xdvi 
kpsewhich: /opt/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/kpsewhich 
mktexpk: /opt/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/mktexpk 
mktextfm: /opt/teTeX/bin/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/mktextfm

Kpathsea variables
TEXMF=/opt/teTeX/share/texmf
TEXMFMAIN=/opt/teTeX/share/texmf

environment variables (ok if no output here)

PLATFORM CHARACTERISTICS:  Used WML System:  Built Environment: 
    Host: i586-pc-linux-gnu
    Perl: 5.004_03 (/usr/bin/perl) 
    User: juh@hasecke.hasecke
    Date: 15-Jan-1999 Built Location: 
    Prefix: /opt/wml
    BinDir: /opt/wml/bin  
 LibDir: /opt/wml/lib
    ManDir: /opt/wml/man

Used Perl System:  Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 3)
configuration: 
  Platform: 
    osname=linux, osvers=2.0.33, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux buildmeister.caldera.com 2.0.33 #1 thu mar 12
20:36:04 mst 1998
 i686 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    bincompat3=n useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler: 
    cc='cc', optimize='-O6 -m486 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe',
gccversion=2.7.2.3
    cppflags=''
    ccflags =''
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    voidflags=15, castflags=0, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=define
    intsize=4, alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, randbits=31
  Linker and Libraries: 
    ld='cc', ldflags =''
    libpth=/lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc      
 libc=/lib/libc.so.5.4.38, so=so
    useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking: 
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef,
ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Locally applied patches: 
        COL_SECURITY1 - 'perl -e'-tmp-race fix (by Theo de Raadt/Todd
Miller) 
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Mar 20 1998 09:33:50
  @INC: 
    /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00403
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl5/site-perl/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site-perl
    .                          

What did I wrong?

Ciao!
juh

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