compiling apps for utf8

[Christoph Wickert]

Hi there!

Is there a way to compile applications for utf8 support.

E. g. I installed zenity (a dialog replacement for gnome2), but it wont
show German special characters like Ä ä Ö ö Ü ü.
"Datei wählen" (Select File) becomes
"Datei whlen"

And even the fedora packages have errors: The Gimp dialog "Layers and
Channels" is "Ebenen und Kanäle" in German, but the window title is "...
Kanle"

Is there a way to stop this? I don't want to switch back to iso8859-1 or
8859-15, because this causes even more problems.

Thanks a lot

Christoph
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Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at web.de>