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

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Sigra writes:
 > 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.)
 > 
I have the same problem. In KDE1.1 some problems can be fixed by
changing that
option but the accent problem is not fixed in KDE 2! I have seen this
problem in other gtk apps,
but never in xaw apps. I have the problem since I'm using KDE2. Even
if I select failsafe in kdm. The problem is still there.

I have tried  (from textconsole):
X :1 tty8 &
export DISPLAY=:1
twm&
xterm&

pressing alt-f8 and then starting civclient from that xterm.

Then all accents are displayed. (BTW: gtk version:1.2.7-1)

This problem also appears also in the windows gtk version.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade