GNOME/GTK issue

Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org> is working:
gtk+2 uses UTF-8 in its internal.
You need to know what UTF-8 is.
Be careful to save legacy encodings.
Pango handles CJK font properly.
Use generic font name "Sans/Serif", not specific "Courier".
Rewrite your code with Pango if your software is gtk 1.2 based.

Use immodule if your software is gtk 2.0 based.
Use toolkit functions.