GTK+ applications crash when you're inserting into fields some char like "i" or "`" or "h". For non english speaking, it's very annoying bug. This seems to be related to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51644 and the bug seems to disapear by using gtk+ 1.2.10 If this is a real bug (not only on my system), Readhat7.1 should upgrade to gtk+ 1.2.10
Okay, my message was corrupted, so, the sentence was not ... some char like "i" or "`" or "h". ... but ... some char like "eacute" or "agrave" or "egrave". ... (like the ones in html ...) (and probably any > 0x80 chars)
This only seems to happen if the LC_CTYPE environment variable is either not set or set to "C" or "POSIX", for instance I have it now set to "pt_PT" and the problem does not occur.
Generally, you can't expect to use non-ASCII characters in C or POSIX locales and expect that to work. How would the app know if they were iso-8859-1, koi8-r, euc-jp, etc characters? If you want English messages, you can use the en_US locale (what you get if you install Red Hat in English), or simply set your LC_CTYPE envariable to the language you want, while leaving LANG/LC_ALL untouched. However, of course, it shouldn't crash. The crash was fixed in 1.2.10, which has been in rawhide for a while.