Bug 85765 – International characters not working in gimp

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Bug 85765 - International characters not working in gimp

Summary:	International characters not working in gimp

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	gimp (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Nils Philippsen
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2003-03-07 05:51 EST by Stefan Ekman
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:51 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-04-02 20:46:55 EST
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Description Stefan Ekman 2003-03-07 05:51:21 EST

Description of problem:

When using the text tool in gimp. You cant write international characters Ã¥Ã¤Ã¶
(aring, auml and ouml). They are represented by twobyte codes instead. If I
choose a twobyte font, then gimp is not finding the when pushing OK.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

1.2.3

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a swedish keyboard
2. Open Gimp and make a blank picture
3. Press texttool
4. Select for example bookman(urw)-light-14
5. Type text including Ã¥Ã¤Ã¶ (aring, auml, ouml)


Actual results:

Ã¥Ã¤Ã¶ (aring, auml, ouml) is represented by other characters.

Expected results:

Correct characters

Additional info:

If I choose times(adobe) i get a warning about that it is a two-byte typeface
and ISO10646-1, medium, 14pt. The characters are shown correctly in the dialog,
but when I press OK I get an alert telling that gimp cant find
 "-adobe-times-medium-r-normal-*-*-420-72-72-p*.iso10646-1"

Comment 1 Stefan Ekman 2003-03-07 06:50:35 EST

Starting gimp from a terminal like this make it work:

export LANG=sv_SE
gimp

Comment 2 Nils Philippsen 2004-04-02 20:46:55 EST

This is a deficiency in gimp-1.2.x which can't cope really well with
Unicode characters. Fixed in gimp-2.0.0 packages for upcoming Fedora
Core 2.

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