On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Sven Neumann 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 :) > > 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. Cool! Then I will definitely not hack it (well, except the color DND). :) --Mitch
