Debugging Text / Font Problem

[Bill Trenker]

I've asked for some help on the xfce general list because I'm not getting any text showing up anywhere in xfce4.  What's confusing me is that other GTK2 applications like AbiWord do render their text fine.  I don't want to clutter the dev list with the details so I'm just hoping for a little direction on where to start tracing in the source code.

It's possible I'm having a configuration problem with X and/or GTK2 resources that is interfering with xfce4's i18n support.  Looking through the xfce4 source I notice this macro:  
xfce_textdomain(package, localedir, encoding)
is used anywhere text is going to be displayed.  I also see that UTF-8 encoding is used extensively.  So perhaps my locale configuration has a problem.

I'm quite prepared to start digging in and tracing the code.  I'm just wondering if you think i18n related code is a good place to start?  Can you suggest a few key xfce4 source files I should start tracing?  Also, can you suggest a few resource file settings I should be looking at?

I'm ready to do the work, I just need a few pointers so I don't waste too much time tracing the wrong code.

Thank you very much,
Bill