Re: umlaute problem

[Gernot Jander <gernotjander compuserve de>]

> 
> I have a problem with my GTK+-application. It (i. e. the 
> button-widget) refuses to display umlauts. It displays 
> everything up to the umlaut but neither this special 
> character nor the remaining part of the string. I already 
> tried to set the LANG and LC_CTYPE environment-variables 
> to "de_DE", but this had no (recognizable) effect. Does 
> anyone know the solution?
> 
> Sebastian Platz 
> 
Hi Sebastian

This seems not to be a problem of GTK. I use GTK (with the Python
interface) and have many umlaute in the labels and buttons, all are
displayed correctly. Please check the code settings of your fonts (=iso8859-1). 
Did you use setlocale() and gtk_set_locale() in your application? 

Gernot