Pablo and others: I have observed that The Gimp does not display the Japanese messages properly in the default Japanese setup in Mandrake. This is on an up to date cooker. Furthermore, with the ~/.i18n as given by localedrake, the former of the 2 commands fails to display the messages correctly, whereas the latter displays them successfully: LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 && gimp LC_CTYPE=ja && gimp
These observations apply to - gimp - gnucash - gnumeric - gnome-spell-properties-capplet - gabber - gaddr - From gnome-pim: -- gnomecal -- gnomecard - From gnome-network: -- gtalk -- gnome-ppp -- gnome-sync Some of these programs gave a warning similar to the following: The font "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-p-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "ja_JP.UTF-8" (Missing character set "JISX0208.1983-0") (Missing character set "JISX0201.1976-0") when I tried to run them with LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8. I tried a bunch of other gnome-* programs and they all displayed their messages correctly under ja_JP.UTF-8. I will state the obvious and say that - gimp - gnucash - gnumeric are the most important ones of these applications to correct since they are widely used and hard to replace by other programs. Of course I can open a bug for each of these packages, but that might be a overkill. Please reply to cooker if you plan on looking at some/all of these. Otherwise, I'll have to open bugs ... Thanks, Narfi.
