Hello. I don't know how xorg and gtk are interconnected, but my problem arised after upgrade of xorg to 6.8.2_rc2 version and freetype library to 2.1.9. I had (and have) strange problem with all gtk-1 based applications in ru_RU.UTF-8 locale. I can not see any russian letters there. There are some strange symbols and english letters instead of russian words. The length of words is twice longer then it should. For example word "ÐÐÐÐÑÑÐÐ" looks like "'3'S'`'['c'd'S'Q". If you have the same problem, as a partial solution I can suggest to start your applications like this: env LC_ALL=ru_RU.KOI8-R gnucash This a least allows to write russian letters in gnucash and to have readable russian interface. Of course you can not avoid bad russian filenames. BTW. Does anybody have xorg-6.8.2 installed with the new freetype library and do not have problems with gtk-1 applications in UTF-8 locale? Sorry for my bad english and thank you for your attention, Peter. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list