Ga=EBl Le Mignot writes: > I wrote a gtk2 application in Python (with pygtk2) and I had to po= rt > it on MS Windows. It works fine on Debian GNU/Linux, and fine too = on > MS Windows until I try display japanese characters. Those characte= rs > are just displayed as squares. Have you checked whether this particular combination (especially the pygtk2 part) on Windows handles non-ASCII at all? If yes, you should check that the file <top>\etc\pango\pango.aliases (where <top> is your Pango installation location) contains the names of fonts you have that provide the necessary Japanese characters. > even notepad can display the same japanese text. Really? Does Notepad handle UTF-8? Or do you mean the same Japanese text, but in UTF-16? --tml
