Hi, > > > 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 :) No, this problem is definitely configuration-specific. I have no problems with GDynText on this debian (potato) system running gimp under whatever locale I like. Salut, Sven
