Hi, Here's a patch against gtk+2.0 which fixes this problem by converting translations of GtkBuilder strings to from the locale's character set to UTF-8. I've verified that this fixes the problem on my system and that it doesn't cause problems with any of the other GTK+ applications that I normally use.
-- Matt http://ftbfs.org/kraai
diff -u gtk+2.0-2.18.3/debian/changelog gtk+2.0-2.18.3/debian/changelog --- gtk+2.0-2.18.3/debian/changelog +++ gtk+2.0-2.18.3/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +gtk+2.0 (2.18.3-1.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * debian/patches/093_convert-gtkbuilder-strings-to-utf8.patch: + + Patch to convert translated GtkBuilder strings to UTF-8. Closes: #552528. + + -- Matt Kraai <kr...@debian.org> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:49:27 -0800 + gtk+2.0 (2.18.3-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream bugfix release: diff -u gtk+2.0-2.18.3/debian/patches/series gtk+2.0-2.18.3/debian/patches/series --- gtk+2.0-2.18.3/debian/patches/series +++ gtk+2.0-2.18.3/debian/patches/series @@ -18,0 +19 @@ +093_convert-gtkbuilder-strings-to-utf8.patch only in patch2: unchanged: --- gtk+2.0-2.18.3.orig/debian/patches/093_convert-gtkbuilder-strings-to-utf8.patch +++ gtk+2.0-2.18.3/debian/patches/093_convert-gtkbuilder-strings-to-utf8.patch @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Index: gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gtk/gtkbuilderparser.c +=================================================================== +--- gtk+2.0-2.18.3.orig/gtk/gtkbuilderparser.c 2009-11-07 13:45:40.000000000 -0800 ++++ gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gtk/gtkbuilderparser.c 2009-11-07 13:46:17.000000000 -0800 +@@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ + else + s = g_dgettext (domain, text); + +- return g_strdup (s); ++ return g_locale_to_utf8 (s, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL); + } + + /* Called for close tags </foo> */
