Re: Japanese GTK/GNOME text garbled.

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 12:12:39PM -0500, Jack Hannon wrote:

> When I attempt to run an GTK/GNOME application with either LC_ALL set to
> ja_JA or LANGUAGE set to ja, the translations are used but not presented
> in Japanese.  Instead they are just garbled characters.
> 
> I do not have this problem when running for other languages.

Have you japanese fonts ?
Run the program from an xterm and report the error messages.

A gnome program must work (as long as the author hasn't manually added
low level GTK/GDK functions).

A Gtk program, however, needs a setlocale(LC_ALL,""); 
line at the very beginning of the main().

And you must set LC_ALL (or LC_CTYPE) in adition to LANGUAGE too.
LANGUAGE sets the translation to use; but that isn't enough, you must
set LC_CTYPE (or LC_ALL) so XFree86 knows which fontset to use.

And of course, the program must use fontsets; if gdk_font_* functions are
used that is a bug of the program; they must be replaced with gdk_fontset_* 
ones.

> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Douzo, give more specific info; which program, which version, what error
messages...



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