Re: locale problem with GTK 2

[Juan Agüí <jagui die upm es>]

El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 16:06, Olexiy Avramchenko escribió:
> Carlos wrote:
> 
> >Each time I try to write french special characters (like " é à ç ") with any GTK2 app, this make it crash... I think this issue come from my locale.
> >
> >Where can I find the locale configuration ?
> >How can I fix my locale ?
> >
> GTK+-2.0 uses utf-8 only.
> So you have to set your locale to smth like "aa_BB.UTF-8" and pass only 
> utf-8 strings into the library functions (like gtk_label_set_text()).
> You can use GNU gettext for dealing with i18n or use GLib functions to 
> convert strings from your encoding to utf-8.


also you can try with GLib's g_locale_to_utf8. Go to api reference for
further details. 
Regards, Juan.


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> Olexiy
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