Re: [dwm] unicode characters in status

Hi,

Not sure about the details, but if I'm not mistaken this has something
to do with font 'subsets' (that's probably not the right word). From
what I understand, there are some character subsets defined for utf-8,
and a font may support some, but not all of them. I believe xterm just
uses whatever the font provides, ignoring what it doesn't provide,
while dwm discards the font's abilities entirely if it doesn't support
all subsets. wmii worked this way too, but was recently patched to
allow 'half utf-8 capable' fonts to work.

Note that I don't really know what I'm talking about here, this is
just what I understood from a thread on the wmii mailinglist, I *may*
have gotten it completely wrong.

Greetings, Sander.

On 12/5/06, dmtry <dab_AT_dfhb.ru> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> may be you remember about discussion not long time ago
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.dwm/924
> but nobody can't advice, i have the same problem:
>
> non ascii characters don'twork in statusbar.
> locale set correctly,
>
> $ locale
> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE=C
> LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> font in config.h also.
> Same font in xterm work perfect.
>
> I can't find solution.
> Thank you.
>
> On 04/12/06, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > many thanks to Gottox who reported a crashing bug of dwm-2.5 in
> > IRC which has been introduced through the view(-1) and tag(-1)
> > change - a very stupid bug of me, that I feel ashamed ;)
> >
> > Anyway, here is the fixed release:
> >
> > http://suckless.org/download/dwm-2.5.1.tar.gz138
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/139 >< GPG key: 0D73F361
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> с уважением,
> http://dfhb.ru
>
Received on Tue Dec 05 2006 - 08:13:35 UTC