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. [*] The only exception are functions working with file names that might to be in on-disk encoding, or something else, see http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkFileChooser.html#gtkfilechooser-encodings etc. Yeti _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
