RE: RE: Language characters

[martyn 2 russell bt com]

> > When I said I get blocks for a character, this is what I 
> meant, here is a
> > screenshot:
> > http://gnome-jabber.sourceforge.net/screenshot-characterblocks.png
> >
> > (see the "Status" value under the "Presence / Subscription").
> >
> > In this case, his name is in Chinese.  If I debug the 
> application in xemacs,
> > I see the correct chinese characters?!
>
> This means that the pango could not find the appropriate glyphs 
> ("characters"). Make sure that your font back end is configured 
> properly to find chinese fonts. For Xft2, this is /etc/fonts/font.conf
> or ~/.fonts/font.conf, IIRC. 
>
> Gtk2 does not render any string that is not all UTF8 (unless 
> explicitely 
> told), so if you see something, then it is UTF8 but that it 
> could not find
> correct fonts.

Cheers for your input, I will certainly look into it.

As for the umlauts, it works ok if i set the presence in my application.
The same "Status" label (as above) is set with the umlauts ok.  But when I
insert them into a GtkTextView, it rejects them?? any suggestions as to why?

Regards,
Martyn