Hi, Cai Qian <caiqian@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > That's much because you don't use the UTF-8 encoding. The encoding of the user environment should have no influence at all to the display of the help documents in the help browser. >> I've uploaded a snapshot of the opening help screen for gimp-2.2.3 >> built on AIX 5.1 with the IBM C compiler and against gnome-2.8.2: >> ftp://support.thewrittenword.com/outgoing/gimp/help-on-aix51.jpeg Either there's a general problem with encoding conversion on this particular machine / system or the font is simply broken. Sven