Bug#268385: gedit: Ignores locale settings when pasting non unicode text from clipboard

[Default User]

Package: gedit
Version: 2.6.2-1
Severity: important


Gedit completly ignores system locale for non unicode text (xterm sellection for example) pasted from clipboard. It is allays treated as iso-8895-1.
The bug is rated "important" because clipboard support is critical for a text editor.
Please do not awnser "use UTF-8". There is no support for default non unicode codepage diferent than iso-8895-1 with Linux UTF-8 locales. This makes using unicode with Linux poor choice in real life.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-plastic
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.CP1251, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.CP1251 (ignored: LC_ALL set to bg_BG.CP1251)

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gedit-common              2.6.2-1        light-weight text editor support f
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaspell15               0.50.5-3       The GNU Aspell spell-checker runti
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-3        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-5        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2                 2.6.2-1        Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libgail-common            1.4.1-1        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                 1.4.1-1        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.3-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.5-2        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.2-1      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0        2.6.2-3        The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0      2.6.2-1        The GNOME 2.2 print architecture U
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-4      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.1.1-6      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.4-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtksourceview1.0-0     1.0.1-2        Shared libraries for the GTK+ synt
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-3       GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-8       A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-5    compression library - runtime

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