a GTK-using application crashes, when LANG is set to non-UTF8

[mi at aldan.algebra.com]

29.06.2010 15:49, I wrote:
> A user I support is struggling with an application (cairo-dock + 
> plugins), that crashes inside gtk/glib (stack below), when the LANG 
> environment variable is set to something like ru_RU.KOI8-R.
>
> Using ru_RU.UTF-8 works fine and the application speaks Russian in 
> both GUI and (rather chatty) stderr/stdout. I suspect, some common 
> mistake is made by the application's author -- any chance, we can 
> quickly patch it up in the port?
This seems like a similar problem:

    http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11936

Yours,

    -mi