Re: [dwm] dwm-2.2

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:13:52PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> 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-*

Yes, I knew I had forgotten to provide some information..

I already use a UTF-8-capable font:

#define FONT "-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1"

This font has no problem rendering umlauts, cyrillic chars and whatnot
on the console, so this is not the problem.

Diego
Received on Tue Nov 21 2006 - 12:18:24 UTC