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:

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

I've tried it, and it works. At least for Gimp. After switching to
de_DE.UTF8 (with restart), some apps makes problems. One example is aterm.
Another is my favorite file manager mc. Even dpkg-reconfigure doesn't
display text as expected. So I switched back to de_DE.ISO-8859-1.

The good news: every thing is working again.

The strange news: gimp is now working too. And I don't know why!


> This certainly worked for me and others with the similar problem with
> Open Office.

OOo had never have problems (at least for me). Only nautilus couldn't
associate files with accented characters. Is the whole stuff a Gnome
problem?

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