diff -Naur synaptic-0.30~/gtk/gsynaptic.cc synaptic-0.30/gtk/gsynaptic.cc
--- synaptic-0.30~/gtk/gsynaptic.cc	2002-12-30 15:38:39.000000000 +0800
+++ synaptic-0.30/gtk/gsynaptic.cc	2002-12-30 16:04:57.000000000 +0800
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@
     gtk_set_locale();
     
 //    bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, "/usr/local/share/locale");
-    textdomain(PACKAGE);
+    bind_textdomain_codeset(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
+    textdomain(GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
 #endif
 
     gtk_init(&argc, &argv);