https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241783 ------- Comment #14 from mfabian@novell.com 2007-02-06 15:49 MST ------- When looking at the original code in gtkimcontextxim.c: GtkIMContext * gtk_im_context_xim_new (void) { GtkIMContextXIM *result; const gchar *charset; result = g_object_new (GTK_TYPE_IM_CONTEXT_XIM, NULL); result->locale = g_strdup (setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL)); g_get_charset (&charset); result->mb_charset = g_strdup (charset); return GTK_IM_CONTEXT (result); } static char * mb_to_utf8 (GtkIMContextXIM *context_xim, const char *str) { GError *error = NULL; gchar *result; if (strcmp (context_xim->mb_charset, "UTF-8") == 0) result = g_strdup (str); else { result = g_convert (str, -1, "UTF-8", context_xim->mb_charset, NULL, NULL, &error); if (!result) { g_warning ("Error converting text from IM to UTF-8: %s\n", error->message); g_error_free (error); } } return result; } one can see that the charset used to convert *from* into UTF-8 while doing XIM is the charset of the current locale. In case of the C/POSIX locale this is: mfabian@magellan:~$ LC_ALL=C locale charmap ANSI_X3.4-1968 mfabian@magellan:~$ which is another name for ASCII. Of course trying to convert non ASCII characters from ASCII to UTF-8 with the glibc conversion routines will report an error: mfabian@magellan:~$ echo -n á | iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-8 iconv: illegal input sequence at position 0 mfabian@magellan:~$ -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.