On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:55, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > 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. >
Has this change been incorporated? The Gimp, userdrake and other programs still only show squares instead of Japanese characters. Also, emacs suffers from the same problem, works in LC_CTYPE=ja and not in LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8. Narfi.
