Gimp crashes because of "umlaute" in the filename!?

[Joerg Desch]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:46:14 +0000
Neil Woolford <neil at neilwoolford.co.uk> wrote:

> >What can I do now? locale tells me, that all entries are set to de_DE!
> 
> There has been a similar problem with Open Office discussed earlier on
> this list.

Does that mean, the problem is inside some shared code? May be it's the
fault of gnome/gtk?


> The fix was to set UTF-8foo as the character encoding.  (In this case
> foo is your appropriate locale.)

Are there any drawbacks using UTF?

> PS  Don't use the UTF-8foo_, they were included by error, the normal
> versions have the euro sign anyway... 

Thanx!

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