Re: Accented characters

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

gtk uk2 net writes:

> On 16 Aug, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
>  I do have a properly set locale. I even reinstalled the operating
>  system in Spanish, RedHat 7.1 allows that, not in polished translation
>  by the way, and running /usr/bin/locale gave the following output:

Most likely, you arent' calling gtk_set_locale() at the beginning
of your program. This call basically tells GTK+ and X to look
for information about the current locale from the environment.

Regards,
                                        Owen