Re: [gtk-list] Foreign Language Support

[a-higuti math sci hokudai ac jp (Akira Higuchi)]

In article <199910031044.MAA09153@relay.globe.cz>
burdam@post.cz writes:

>Greetings from Czech Republic!
>
>Every application can write czech iso8859-2 characters. My problem is
>that my GTK applications can not get some special czech characters
>from keyboard input. For example: I can write English words in the
>ENTRY widget, but not czech letters " ,   "! (other applications work
>perfectly).

Try the following:
(1) Set LANG environment variable properly.
(2) Call gtk_set_locale() before gtk_init().
(3) Use gdk_fontset_load() instead of gdk_font_load().

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Akira Higuchi
Dept. of Mathematics, Hokkaido Univ.
Hokkaido, Japan
Email: a-higuti@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp