I'm working on an app which involves the use of webkitgtk. It works fine except non-english characters. Example, webkitgtk widget does not render the following Russian text correctly.
Пишу в English, значит все в порядке. Спасибо!
It rather display this,
Пишу в English, значит вÑе в порÑдке. СпаÑибо!
How do I make webkitgtk display international text correctly?
You need to do character set conversion. Glib offers a great interface to do so.
The displayed string looks like UTF-8-encoded string interpreted as ISO-8859-1-encoded string. You should correctly set encoding.
E.g., if you are loading the HTML string into WebKitWebView, you should correctly specify its encoding (via encoding argument to webkit_web_view_load_string).
If you are loading a web page from the internet, make sure that its encoding is correctly specified (http server sends the correct Content-Type header or web page has correct http-equiv="Content-Type" specification).
WebKit engine itself should handle multilingual texts fine.