Description of problem: When using the text tool in gimp. You cant write international characters åäö (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 åäö (aring, auml, ouml) Actual results: åäö (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"
Starting gimp from a terminal like this make it work: export LANG=sv_SE gimp
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.