On 29 Aug 2001 14:44:49 +0200, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> said: >>Has this been reported as a bug in GTK? >Huh? It's not a bug, it's a feature. All strings in GTK+-2.0 are >UTF-8 encoded and the application has to assure that only valid UTF-8 >strings end up at the toolkit level. This is the only reasonable >solution to the encoding mess and it works just perfect. It allows >for example to have different languages with different "native" >encodings in the same widget. Why do you consider this a bug? In my opinion, a library which crashes when fed inappropriate external data is buggy by definition. Kelly