check to see if there’s anything we can do to restore the rendering of the text in plantuml diagrams

[IT Platforms]

With the recent update, it appears we are using an new version of plantuml or the plantuml plugin. The new version seems to return HTML instead of a PNG for the given plantuml config file.

This new plugin also supports the AWS Icons (yay!).

Unfortunately there seems to be some rendering issues for certain characters. The attached pictures show the difference between a seq diagram generated locally and what is now rendering on the wiki.

What use dto be “<<UI>>” is now something like “��UI��”. This isn’t just happening with the less-than/greater-than symbols. I tried out some of the samples from the plantuml documentation and sometimes even spaces get turned into the unprintable characters.

I tried to see if there were any encoding parameters that could be set in the file itself, but the encoding all seems to stem from the server. This feels encoding related, but I can’t really say. I did not find much about this on the open internet and so am creating this ticket.

Can you check to see if there’s anything we can do to restore the rendering of the text in plantuml diagrams?

https://confluence.collegeboard.org/display/epDataServices/msTestOrderProvisioning+--+Design