Re: Accented characters

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

gtk uk2 net writes:

> Hello,
> 
> 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?

Most likely you are trying to display spanish characters in the
C locale. This doesn't work. The C locale is ascii and puts no
interpretation on characters > 128. (They could be Spanish,
Russian, Japanese, etc ...)

Try using es_ES or en_US for your locale and the problem should
go away.

Regards,
                                        Owen