Re: Accented characters

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

gtk uk2 net writes:
> 
> Last year I wrote a GTK based GUI to a database, linux 2.2.15 and GTK
> 1.2.8. I tried to port the application to a new system, linux 2.4.2 xith
> GTK 1.2.9 and all the labels that contain accented letters don't show,
> all of it disappears, not just the guilty characters! Since the
> application is in Spanish, this is of ctritical importance. Labels with
> no special characters show up just fine.
> 
> The guilty party is:    gtk_label_new ("text that won't show, jéjé!!");
> but
> get-window_set_title (GTK_WIDGET(window), "text will show, jéjé!!");
> 
> The file ./gtk+-1.2.9/NEWS states that one of the improvements is
> "changes so that using fonts (as well as fontsets) for non-iso-8859-1
> locales will work". By the way Spanish enters in 8859-1 and doesn't work
> anymore. What do I do?
> 

Is your locale properly set, or are you trying to use Latin-1 with the
"C" locale?

For example,
 LANG=es_ES appname

or whatever.

Havoc