diff -ur gedit-0.9.6.orig/src/print-doc.c gedit-0.9.6/src/print-doc.c
--- gedit-0.9.6.orig/src/print-doc.c	Sun Mar  4 04:16:11 2001
+++ gedit-0.9.6/src/print-doc.c	Tue Apr 17 18:57:23 2001
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@
 		return;
 	
 	gnome_print_moveto (pji->pc, pji->margin_left, y);
-	gedit_print_show_iso8859_1 (pji->pc, pji->temp);
+	gedit_print_show (pji->pc, pji->temp);
 
 	/* Print the line number */
 	if (pji->print_line_numbers >0 &&
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
 
 		gnome_print_setfont (pji->pc, pji->font_numbers);
 		gnome_print_moveto (pji->pc, pji->margin_left - pji->margin_numbers, y);
-		gedit_print_show_iso8859_1 (pji->pc, number_text);
+		gedit_print_show (pji->pc, number_text);
 		g_free (number_text);
 		gnome_print_setfont (pji->pc, pji->font_body);
 	}
@@ -513,14 +513,14 @@
 	len = gnome_font_get_width_string (pji->font_header, text1);
 	x = pji->page_width/2 - len/2;
 	gnome_print_moveto(pji->pc, x, y);
-	gedit_print_show_iso8859_1 (pji->pc, text1);
+	gedit_print_show (pji->pc, text1);
 
 	/* Print the page/pages  */
 	y = pji->page_height - pji->margin_top - pji->header_height/4;
 	len = gnome_font_get_width_string (pji->font_header, text2);
 	x = pji->page_width - len - 36;
 	gnome_print_moveto (pji->pc, x, y);
-	gedit_print_show_iso8859_1 (pji->pc, text2);
+	gedit_print_show (pji->pc, text2);
 
 	g_free (text1);
 	g_free (text2);
diff -ur gedit-0.9.6.orig/src/print-util.c gedit-0.9.6/src/print-util.c
--- gedit-0.9.6.orig/src/print-util.c	Sun Feb 25 23:23:56 2001
+++ gedit-0.9.6/src/print-util.c	Tue Apr 17 18:56:49 2001
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 #include <config.h>
 #include <gnome.h>
+#include <locale.h>
 
 #include <libgnomeprint/gnome-print.h>
 
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@
 #include "print.h" /* for the defined fontnames */
 #include "print-util.h"
 
+#define _PROPER_I18N
 /* Taken from gnumeric */
 /**
  * g_unichar_to_utf8:
@@ -93,8 +95,7 @@
 
   return len;
 }
-
-
+#ifndef _PROPER_I18N
 /*
  * print_show_iso8859_1
  *
@@ -137,6 +138,95 @@
 
 	return ret;
 }
+#endif
+
+/* This code is taken from gnumeric. It's fully i18n-wise correct - so 
+ feel free to copy it from here everywhere you can. 
+ 'text' is text that is in current locale's encoding.
+ 	Code is (c) 2001 Vlad Harchev <hvv@hippo.ru>
+*/
+int
+gedit_print_show (GnomePrintContext *pc, char const *text)
+{
+#ifdef _PROPER_I18N
+	wchar_t* wcs,wcbuf[4096];
+	char* utf8,utf8buf[4096];
+	
+	int conv_status;
+	int n = strlen(text);
+	int retval;
+
+	g_return_val_if_fail (pc && text, -1);	
+	
+	if ( n > (sizeof(wcbuf)/sizeof(wcbuf[0])))
+		wcs = g_new(wchar_t,n);
+	else
+		wcs = wcbuf;
+
+	conv_status = mbstowcs(wcs, text, n);
+
+	if (conv_status == (size_t)(-1)){
+		if (wcs != wcbuf)
+			g_free (wcs);
+		return 0;
+	};
+	if (conv_status * 6 > sizeof(utf8buf))
+		utf8 = g_new(gchar, conv_status * 6);
+	else
+		utf8 = utf8buf;
+	{
+		int i;
+		char* p = utf8;
+		for(i = 0; i < conv_status; ++i)
+			p += g_unichar_to_utf8 ( (gint) wcs[i], p);
+		if (wcs != wcbuf)
+			g_free(wcs);			
+		retval = gnome_print_show_sized (pc, utf8, p - utf8);			
+	}	
+
+	if (utf8 != utf8buf)
+		g_free(utf8);
+	return retval;		
+#else
+	return gedit_print_show_iso8859_1 (pc, text);
+#endif
+};
 /**
diff -ur gedit-0.9.6.orig/src/print-util.h gedit-0.9.6/src/print-util.h
--- gedit-0.9.6.orig/src/print-util.h	Sun Feb 25 07:35:37 2001
+++ gedit-0.9.6/src/print-util.h	Tue Apr 17 18:57:35 2001
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 #ifndef __GEDIT_PRINT_UTIL_H__
 #define __GEDIT_PRINT_UTIL_H__
 
-int      gedit_print_show_iso8859_1 (GnomePrintContext *pc, char const *text);
+int      gedit_print_show (GnomePrintContext *pc, char const *text);
 gboolean gedit_print_verify_fonts   (void);