Re: [dwm] dwm-2.2

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:04:08PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 09:44:17AM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> >
> > I created http://suckless.org/download/dwm-2.2.tar.gz
> >
> > It contains some code cleanups and a minor fix supplied by Jukka.
>
> One thing that has been bugging me since I converted my system to UTF-8:
>
> dwm has trouble rendering non-ASCII characters in the status bar (and
> the small bar over non-focused windows). This should be quite easy to
> reproduce on a UTF-8 system:
>
> 1) Fire up firefox.
> 2) Go to http://www.muenster.de/
> 3) Look at the status bar, the Umlauts are rendered wrong (two random
> characters instead of one).
>
> I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 as locale setting. wmii gets this right on the
> same box (Debian PPC unstable). I tested with a freshly-compiled
> dwm-2.2 of course. Let me know if I can provide further details to
> narrow down this problem.
>
> Oh, before I forget: Thanks for dwm. I've been using it for some time
> now and it doesn't eventually drive me nuts like all window managers
> have so far :)

Make sure you use an UTF-8 capable X font, e.g.:

-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*

Regards,

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