Re: Problems with special characters

[Jon K Hellan <hellan acm org>]

Christoph Fabianek <e9725236 stud4 tuwien ac at>(by way of Christoph Fabianek <e9725236 stud4 tuwien ac at>) 
writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem with Gnumeric 1.0.1: Text containing special
> characters (e.g., äöüß) is not displayed correctly in the cells i.e., it only
> displays the characters till the first special character (example:
> "zurückgeben" becomes "zur"), although the text is shown completely in the
> "data entry area".
>
> I have recently set up my computer from scratch (Debian/testing with gnumeric
> from unstable) and perhaps something is missing, but no other applications
> (including Gnome-Apps) show this behaviour. Does anyone know a solution?

I had the same problem, when I was running Gnumeric in an invalid locale. If
you run it in an ISO-8859-1 locale, e.g. en_US, the strings render
correctly.

I had my xterms configured with en_US, so things looked right when
starting Gnumeric from an xterm. But the desktop had locale "english",
which doesn't exist.

I fixed it by manually changing a line in ~/.gnome/gdm, under section
[session], from "lang=english" to "lang=en_US".

I believe the gdm's (gnome login window's) language selector maintains
this entry in the file, but there seemed to be no way to select a
valid English locale. A Debian packaging problem?

Hope this helps.

Jon Kåre