FS#4652 - Wrong characters in gtk-apps when using utf8

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 21:05 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 19 May 2006, 09:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To dorphell (dorphell)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

If you are using utf8 and some old gtk-apps like xmms, some characters like üöä are rendered incorrectly.

One can override this by using iso: cp /etc/gtk/gtkrc.iso-8859-15 ~/.gtkrc.mine

Perhaps we could solve this system-wide.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Wednesday, 03 January 2007, 23:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 19 May 2006, 15:15 GMT
No, we cannot override this because not everyone use Latin characters. It is better to use gtkrc.iso-10646-1.
There is xlib-locale-ru-ru-utf8 in [unsupported]. It fixes problems with GTK1, Cyrillic characters and UTF8. Try it, I think it should help for other broken characters too.
Comment by 甘露(Lu Gan) (ganlu) - Friday, 19 May 2006, 22:59 GMT
People using diffirent language (saying Chinese) need diffirent setting in gtkrc, so the best way is to make a Wiki howto, not a default global setting.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 20 May 2006, 07:15 GMT
Agree.
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Saturday, 20 May 2006, 07:35 GMT
You are right. I did not thought about that. But this problem could be solved by setting a font whick supports unicode. This could be made global.
Comment by 甘露(Lu Gan) (ganlu) - Saturday, 20 May 2006, 15:38 GMT
May not be so easy, because gtk1 could not take advantage or at least not make good use of unicode (a whold hackish thing I am aftaid). As far as I know this the one of reasones devs decide to almost rewrite gtk2 from the scratch.
Comment by 甘露(Lu Gan) (ganlu) - Saturday, 20 May 2006, 15:40 GMT
Gtk2 instead has the very good international support.

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