[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [NEWBIE] Locale problem with GTK

[Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

torsdagen den  1 februari 2001 06:11 skrev Ernesto Domato:
> >> and every sentence is displayed 'till an accent letter appears where it
> >> is cut and don't display the rest of the sentence (I don't know if I
> >> explain that well).
> >
> > This is probably because of a GTK bug. Upgrade GTK. If you are already
> > using latest stable, it may help to try a newer development version.
> >
> > If this doesn't solve it, tell what desktop environment you use and if
> > you have this problem in other GTK programs.
>
> I'm using the KDE2 desktop.
> Anyway, I test to compile the Freeciv on other machine that has Debian
> 2.2 and the Gnome desktop and it work fine. The funny thing is that I
> try in the same machine to run the gtk-client but this time in KDE2 and
> it works fine too so I think that the problem is with some library in
> the first machine where I has the problem.
> I'll check that then.

I have heard theories that a certain setting in KDE2 triggers this bug in 
GTK+. It is fixed in newer GTK+, but a workaround is to turn off that 
setting. I think it is Kontrolpanel->Look&Feel->Style. There is a checkbox 
about wether to use fonts and colors for programs outside KDE. Try to uncheck 
it. (I can't see the english text labels because I use translation.)