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

[Neil Woolford]

At 11:04 13/01/05, Joerg Desch wrote:

>Im using an up-to-date warty with gimp 2.02. If I call gimp with a
>filename which contains german special characters (umalute öäüÖÄÜ), it
>crashes



>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.

The problem there was locale related;  not just the locale needs to be 
right, but also
the encoding method for the 'extended' characters.  (Accented ones in general.)

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

Setting is probably easiest via dpkg-reconfigure locales (if I remember 
correctly, I'm
not near a machine with Ubuntu at the moment).

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

Neil

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


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