Description of Problem: In "Settings" menu for gcharmap it is possible to pick up a font in an encoding other than iso8859-1 and a displayed table changes accordingly. But a text at the bottom, a small window under "Help" button which shows a magnified character, and a "Text to copy:" window still insist on using glyphs from iso8859-1 set. This looks particularly ridiculous and misleading if glyphs are mostly different than iso8859-1. Say koi-8 or iso8859-7 or even iso8859-2. Yes, I realize that pasting a text from "Text to copy:" into a terminal window will have results dependent on fonts used in a given terminal; but I happen to have classes of gnome-terminal using different font encodigs adjusted to various needs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-utils-1.4.0-4
Yeah, gcharmap is totally broken. There's a newer UTF-8 version in GNOME 2, I wonder if it would be a good idea to upgrade to that.
Fixes to this problem will come with GNOME 2, only critical bugfixes on GNOME 1.x at this point.