RE: Language characters

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 10:24, martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
> > No idea. You should never get blocks for a character if there is any
> > font on your system that can handle it; changing locale just 
> > changes the
> > order in which fonts are selected.
> >
> > (Assuming that you are using pango-1.2.x/fontconfig/Xft2)
>
>
> I have a bug in my application where someone sends me umlauts and it is not
> displayed correctly, see the bug here:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=771259&group_id=646
> 00&atid=508042
>
> The GtkTextView complains that it is not valid UTF8.  I thought umlauts were
> supported in UTF8.

Please read:

 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-question-index.htm,
question 1.7
 
 http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/porting/ar01s10.html#gtk-utf8

Regards,
                                                                Owen