X11 won't display UTF-8 characters (using Kbabel)

Hello everyone
Boy, the discussion lists have changed! Forums are a good idea, though.
I'm a volunteer open-source translator, and the most effective translation editor for us is Kbabel. (LocFactoryEditor [1] for OSX is very good, though. I use it continually, and BBEdit [2] for CVS/SVN management of translation files.)
When I installed Kbabel, everything went OK, but when I tried to open a PO (Portable Object, translation file format, basically a text file) file, the translations in my language (Vietnamese) were just gibberish. None of the accented characters displayed correctly. Since my language is pretty much all accented characters, this was a critical problem. Characters entered had the same problem. No readable data in, no readable data out, no translation possible.
I had set my X11 prefs to inherit my keyboard choice, and had chosen the right keyboard. I have Lucida Grande set as my default font, and it handles Vietnamese very well.
This was months ago. I reported it as a bug against Kbabel, but with investigation, we found it was an X11 problem. I was told at the time (sorry, I can't remember the reference) that this was a known X11 bug, which Apple had not yet fixed. Judging by the continuing mess when I try to use Kbabel now, it hasn't been fixed.
How do we track bugs reported to Apple, or continuing problems of this type? Do you think this is really the problem, or is there another way to solve it?
Any help very much appreciated.
from Clytie
[1] http://www.triplespin.com/en/products/locfactoryeditor.html
[2] http://www.barebones.com/index.shtml

I would suggest you repeat your query in the unix forum, where the experts on such stuff are more likely found, and where there have been other threads about using accented chars in terminal, etc.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735

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Dear Sir,
I am using PHP with Crystal Report 9.2 and has problem displaying UTF-8 data from MSSQL field. It shows weird characters instead. I am very sure the data stored in database is in UTF-8 because when I ouput it into the web browser with encoding as UTF-8, it shows correctly. Currently is using ADODB recordset to pass data into CR. I tried using ODBC to connect directly to database and preview the data - same issue.
Now I wonder whether are there any settings need to be done in CR in order to display unicode correctly? From what I read, CR 9 and above should be able to support unicode.
Thanks
AL

To be honest, I have no idea if TTX files supported UTF-8... I kinda doubt it. I'd check, but the only person I knwo of that may have a clue is not in until September 28...
Re. ODBC, see if adding the following option to your DSN entry in the odbc.ini file will help:
stmt = SET CHARACTER SET utf8
Also, if I remember right, MS SQL does not install UTF-8 support by default (at least at one time or another it did not...(?).
Oh - one more thing. I've attached a non CR app that I'd like you to use to see what the data it returns looks like. Please give that a try.
- Ludek
Edited by: Ludek Uher on Sep 7, 2011 10:43 AM

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