Re: locale problem with GTK 2

[Olexiy Avramchenko <ath beast stu cn ua>]

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