Re: [dev] UTF8 text in wmii

From: Yuval Hager <yhager_AT_yhager.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:09:34 +0200

On Sunday 27 September 2009, Kris Maglione wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:59:29PM +0300, Yuval Hager wrote:
> >Some non-latin characters are displayed garbled within wmii (windows
> > titles, tag names) - attached is Firefox window title I get. I tried
> > using ucs fonts (*-ISO10646-1), but then everything is garbled, even
> > latin text.
>
> Unfortunately, Xlib has rather atrocious font support. Your best
> bet is to use Xft:
>
> wmiir xwrite /ctl font xft:terminus-10

This doesn't work for me, with wmii-3.6.
It does work with wmii-hg, but I can't get ruby-wmii to work with it for
some reason yet (haven't tried rumai yet either)

Thanks for the help, I'll keep trying..

--y

Received on Tue Sep 29 2009 - 19:09:34 UTC

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