Canvas unicode font issue in redhat8.0

[Bruno Coudoin <bcoudoin anfora fr>]

I just ported gcompris to gnome 2.
It works fine on Mandrake 9.0 but when I compile it on redhat 8.0, the
fonts in the gnome canvas are not displayed correctly, all accents are
displayed as 2 chars instead of the proper one.

I can see where is the difference, does somebody already experienced
that ?

Bruno.