GTKmm/Pango issue.

["Guilio Karadanais" <gkaradanais dvt co za>]

Hi list

I have been experiencing some weird behavior ever since I have been
linking to the 'ntwdblib' (DBlib for C) or 'libxslt' (v1.1.14.win32) on
win32 platform.

I am busy porting a GTK+ (c) to GTKmm(c++), the port is working
(compiles and runs) but as soon as I link to the above mentioned libs
the below occurs.

1.) Menus and Toolbars using Built in Stock Icons do not render icons
only text.
2.) Widgets using Stock Icons (Gtk::Button created with a StockID)
render garbage text on the button and gtk warns : "Invalid UTF-8 string
passed to pango_layout_set_text()"


I have searched some gtk mailing lists which sways towards an issue with
non UTF-8 string being passed around. But can't seem to figure out the
context of my issue(linking to arb static librarys)

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Guilio Karadanais

Details ->

Gtk+         : 2.6.7 rev-a
Gtkmm        : 2.4 
Gcc version : 3.4.2 (mingw-speacial)
Dev-CPP     : 4.9.9.2
OS          : WinXP SP2