[Synaptic-devel] Interface does not display accentuated characters

[Jean-Michel POURE]

Dear all,

I posted several times about this (minor) issue:

Under my Debian SID workstation, Synaptic does not display accentuated 
characters like "é", which are replaced by their non-accentuated equivalents.

I found a possible explaination there:
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html

"4.2 Fontconfig Magic
 By some kind of magic called 'the fontconfig library' (Debian packages 
fontconfig and libfontconfig), if a symbol is not present in the selected 
font, applications can find another font which contains it. It works 
(approximately) by configuring the application to use fonts with certain 
characteristics, rather than fonts with specific names. For instance, newer 
versions of Mozilla are configured (at least in Debian) to use a font called 
monospace whenever a fixed-width font is needed. A font with that name does 
not exist. But libconfig tries to find it. The file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf 
specifies that the preferred font for 'monospace' is Bitstream Vera Sans 
Mono. But other fonts, like Courier New and Andale Mono, may be used if 
B.V.S. Mono is not available, or when a certain character is not available in 
the font. "

Now, even if choose different fonts in Synaptic dialog, the menus and other 
stuff still display under the default font. Hence the problem with character 
substitution remains.

Any idea how this issue can be solved within Synaptic?

Cheers,
Jean-Michel