Re: [dwm] What am I doing wrong with displaying utf-8 string?

Antoni Grzymala dixit (2008-08-06, 23:28):

> Christian Garbs dixit (2008-08-06, 22:42):
>
> > I'm still using dwm-4.7 and with the following two patches everything
> > is alright for me (should be applicable to current dwm, too):
> >
> > http://www.cgarbs.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/dwm-mitch.git?a=blob;f=05_patch_dwm_mitch_utf8widechars.diff
> > http://www.cgarbs.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/dwm-mitch.git?a=blob;f=02_patch_dmenu_mitch_utf8widechars.diff
> >
> > Both
> >
> > $ xtermset -title 日本語
> > $ { echo 猫; echo 犬; echo 何; } | dmenu
> >
> > are handled and displayed correctly by dwm and dmenu.
>
> Makes me wonder why these patches didn't go mainline then... Perhaps
> it's hight time, what do you think?

Actually, then don't work for me. dmenu shows these Asian characters
correctly but fails on simple Polish strings, strangely enough.

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