> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:01:45PM +0200, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: >> I previously worked with GTK only on Windows and the Windows builds of >> GTK >> always used UTF-8 for everything. Now I played a bit with GTK on Linux >> and >> noticed that it doesn't seem to handle UTF-8 correctly by default. >> Instead, ISO 8859-1 is used (which should be my locale's default >> charset). >> When I pass UTF-8 text to functions like gtk_dialog_add_button(), then >> the >> specified strings seem to be treated as ISO-8859-1, i.e. non ASCII >> characters appear as multiple characters instead of being resolved to >> the >> single character they represent according to UTF-8 decoding tables. >> >> Could someone tell me how I can convince GTK to use UTF-8 as the default >> on Linux, too? > > Gtk+ uses UTF-8 everywhere for everything[*] so I am almost sure that > you do not pass UTF-8 even if you think so. Most likely your strings > were double-encoded to UTF-8. Oops, yes, it happened because my text editor seems to have changed the encoding of sources from ISO 8859-1 to UTF-8. So it really was a double encoding :) Thanks, Andreas _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
