On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Sven Neumann wrote:
> > > > Where are you experts??? We are two at minimum discovering this behaviour
> > > > and if it's a misconfiguration it has to be described somewhere.
> > >
> > > It is a misconfiguration on your part. I'm running gimp 1.1.19 from
> > > debian and GDynText appears to be working fine. I typed text and it
> > > appeared in a new layer.
> >
> > I'm afraid Uwe's original report is correct. GDynText is totally
> > broken when used under any locale, because it seems to do bad
> > thing to the X font spec's "encoding" field. I'm thinking about
> > hacking it but I don't promise anything :)
>
> No, this problem is definitely configuration-specific. I have no problems
> with GDynText on this debian (potato) system running gimp under whatever
> locale I like.
Cool! Then I will definitely not hack it (well, except the color DND).
:)
--Mitch