Hello Tor! Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:15:46 +0000, you wrote:=20 > Ga=EBl Le Mignot writes: >> I wrote a gtk2 application in Python (with pygtk2) and I had to por= t >> it on MS Windows. It works fine on Debian GNU/Linux, and fine too o= n >> MS Windows until I try display japanese characters. Those character= s >> are just displayed as squares. > Have you checked whether this particular combination (especially the > pygtk2 part) on Windows handles non-ASCII at all? I remember having latin1 characters (like =E9) on gtk on windows once, but I don't remember if it was gtk1 or gtk2. Anyway, inputing japanese and then saving it works, it's just that glyphs are not displayer. > 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. I'll try that, tahnks >> 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? Notepad of windows 2k handles UTF-8, not the one of 9x (including millenium) (I don't know for XP, I never used XP) --=20 Gael Le Mignot "Kilobug" - kilobug@xxxxxxxxx - http://kilobug.free.fr GSM : 06.71.47.18.22 (in France) ICQ UIN : 7299959 Fingerprint : 1F2C 9804 7505 79DF 95E6 7323 B66B F67B 7103 C5DA Member of HurdFr: http://hurdfr.org - The GNU Hurd: http://hurd.gnu.org