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