8bit-chars in X-applications

[gb@jill.westfalen.de (Georg Bauer)]

Hi!

One problem: in some packages I can't use 8bit-chars. Those packages usually
use GTK or TK for graphic output. Most notably those are X-Chat, TkRat and
Postilion. Any idea what happens here? Other X-Applications accept my
umlauts just fine, only those named apps have a problem.

Usually I would think that it's a problem of the application, but both TkRat
and Postilion are supposed to explicitly support umlauts, so I am a bit
confuzzled here.

Any ideas?

bye, Georg