GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 153747
Script-Fu needs UTF-8 support
Last modified: 2006-10-16 09:38:55 UTC
1. Run GIMP 2. Open Xtns - Script-fu - Logos - Text Circle 3. Try to use any font, but not english (i tried russian)
This is a known issue with the Script-Fu interpreter. It doesn't know about UTF-8 and the way the script is written it can only possibly work with ASCII text.
Improving the Text Circle script is handled in bug #144588. I will make this one a request for adding UTF-8 support to Script-Fu (or for replacing Script-Fu with an interpreter that deals with UTF-8 properly).
The CVS copy of Tiny-Fu for GIMP 2.2 now includes UTF-8 support. I rather doubt this is going to happen for Script-Fu though based on my experience updating Tiny-Fu and the number of changes that are needed.
*** Bug 171356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 300769 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It worked for me for Hindi, Gujarathi and Marathi (all indian) languages. I used FreeSans for the font, yudit to type, and my Gimp version is 2.2 .
What operating system/kernel are you running? (E.g. Windows XP, 9x, Debian with custom built 2.6 kernel, etc.) I remember that in Windows 9x, a dll, unicows.dll, was required for UTF-8 support in most programs.
*** Bug 311356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 341808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bumping target to Future because this is not a blocker for 2.4.
*** Bug 348303 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Kevin has committed the change from SIOD to tinyscheme. We can now close this report as FIXED.