On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Christopher W. Curtis wrote:
> Uwe Koloska wrote:
>
> > Where are you experts??? We are two at minimum discovering this behaviour
> > and if it's a misconfiguration it has to be described somewhere.
>
> It is a misconfiguration on your part. I'm running gimp 1.1.19 from
> debian and GDynText appears to be working fine. I typed text and it
> appeared in a new layer.
I'm afraid Uwe's original report is correct. GDynText is totally
broken when used under any locale, because it seems to do bad
thing to the X font spec's "encoding" field. I'm thinking about
hacking it but I don't promise anything :)
bye,
--Mitch