Re: locale problem with GTK 2

[Carlos <citrouille wanadoo fr>]

Where is defined the locale to use ?

I found in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ some .UTF-8 files but I don't know how to change current locale to mine (fr_FR).
I am working on a lfs distribution, but I had never worked with utf caracters because I never had this probleme with gtk1

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 17:06:20 +0200
Olexiy Avramchenko <ath beast stu cn ua> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Olexiy
> 
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