At Sun, 15 Dec 2002 15:58:07 +0200 (EET), Martin--bÉric Racine wrote: > Provides partial answers to (Bug#172995: libc6) and (Bug#110091: sylpheed). > Thanks to Goto Masanori for > hinting me this one (you were almost right to say fonts were at fault - it's > actually locales). > > If I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a locale while using libc6 2.3.1, none of the > gtk1.2 apps work, they all die > with a SIGSEG. This used to work fine using libc6 2.2.x (what's currently in > testing). > > Given the above tip above the fonts, I checked if I have any ISO-8859-15 > fonts and I indeed have; I can > get the Euro and S/Z+caron as expected in gnome-terminal 2.1.0. I have also > reinstalled the locales > package (it correctly shows the @euro locales as being built), but it still > doesn't fix anything. > > Reverting the locale settings to fi_FI in /etc/environment makes these gtk1.2 > applications work again > (except sylpheed, it still dies - but all others gqview, xmms, gaim, etc. > work again), but obviously > deprives me from the euro/scaron/zcaron glyphs I need. > > (OT) Who is handling the transition from fi_FI (ISO-8859-1) to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] (ISO-8859-15) for localisation of > GTK and Gnome applications?
Thanks for your tackling this problem! From your analysis, it seems gtk+ font naming issue... You know, remaining this bug in libc6 is not appropriate. Could I merge to #172995, or just close? -- gotom
