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

[Martin Schmitz]

Joerg Desch schrieb:
> 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.

aterm is known to not support UTF-8 but mc should do fine. You can use
convmv to convert filenames to UTF-8 and iconv to convert the contents
of files. Look at http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/1786.html for
examples.

Martin