File README.unicode of Package wxGTK
wxWidgets and unicode ===================== wxWidgets allows to be compiled in unicode mode. This is needed for some controls to work correctly with unicode locales. However some applications were not written in respect to this compile time option and won't compile. This is reason why this package contains both unicode and non unicode versions of library. If you want to compile application using wxWidgets, it will by default use unicode version, in case it doesn't compile (you get errors about wrong conversion to wxString and simmilar), you can pass parameter --unicode=[yes|no] to wx-config to select wanted wxGTK version. Non-unicode libraries are shipped in separate package - wxGTK-compat