Kaixo! On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:02:06AM -0600, Narfi Stefansson wrote: > 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
Yes, apparentyl the way XFree86 handles utf-8 fontsets changed (previously, giving a *-jisx0208.1983-0 font was enough; now it requires *-iso10646-1 fonts only). I rebuild libgtk+1.2 and some fonts-* packages so that old gtk1 programs work better in utf-8 locales. > I tried a bunch of other gnome-* programs and they all displayed their > messages correctly under ja_JP.UTF-8. Yes, gtk2 programs don't use the old X11 font mechanism, but the new Xft mechanism, which is much much better. -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.walon.org/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Italian or Portuguese]
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