Re: Missing labels with national chars in some widgets

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Rafał Kleger-Rudomin <ip011@osi.gda.pl> writes:

> Hello!
> 
> I've noticed following problem with all gtk apps:
> 
> Labels containing any national character are not displayed
> by some widgets (eg there are missing entries in menu 
> and in checkboxes) while some other widgets display national
> strings properly (e.g label created by 'gtk_frame_new("label")',
> month names and weekday names in calendar widget - these are OK)
> 
> 
> Some people I know reported this problem too, some
> others have not encountered this.
> 
> I tested gtkrc settings a bit: I put different sizes of fonts
> to check which font is used. I've found that always the first (latin1) 
> one is used (nevertheless all chars are displayed properly in widgets I
> mentioned):
> 
> style  "gtk-default-iso-8859-2" {
>        fontset = "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1,\
>                   -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2"
> }
> class "GtkWidget" style "gtk-default-iso-8859-2"
> 
> 
> 
> Do you have any suggestions what could cause the problem or how to track
> it down?

I think is caused because you don't have the character conversion modules
installed for GNU libc.

Widgets like the frame widget just treat the string as an opaque chunk
so they don't notice this, but the label widget wants to covert the
string to wide characters, manipulate it that way (to find out word
breaks, etc.), and then convert back.

Regards,
                                        Owen