Re: [dwm] unicode characters in status

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:28:17AM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:24:26AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:47:50AM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:13:33AM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if it might solve the problem dmtry noticed, but
> > > attached patch will enforce to use the specified font even if
> > > necessary font sets are missing. dmtry let me know if you get
> > > better results with this patch applied (though I doubt it,
> >
> > With this patch applied I see no characters at all in the status bar
> > anymore, just some squares...
>
> Well, then the font you use does not contain those fontsets, and
> now dwm don't uses 'fixed' as internal fallback in such
> situations, which might be the reason for what you notice.

Well, the font works perfectly in xterm or mlterm or emacs ..

I have the following in config.h:

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

and I have the same problem with:

#define FONT "-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*"

> > > better is to uncomment the missing fontsets reported by dwm in
> > > your ru_RU.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE file... but well.
> >
> > Where would dwm report those? My ~/.xsession-errors is empty..
>
> dwm reports them to stderr, dunno where you redirect it to. I
> use dwm > $HOME/dwm.err 2>&1 and then my dwm.err contains
> something like:
>
> missing fontset: JISX0201.1976-0
> missing fontset: GB2312.1980-0
> missing fontset: KSC5601.1987-0
> missing fontset: JISX0208.1983-0
> ** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
>
> It also contains the output of apps which have been invoked by
> dmenu and which write to stderr.

OK, that helped, thanks. With the fixed font I get

missing fontset: JISX0201.1976-0
missing fontset: GB2312.1980-0
missing fontset: KSC5601.1987-0
missing fontset: JISX0208.1983-0
missing fontset: ISO8859-1
missing fontset: ISO8859-1

with terminus I get

missing fontset: JISX0201.1976-0
missing fontset: GB2312.1980-0
missing fontset: KSC5601.1987-0
missing fontset: JISX0208.1983-0

I'm scratching my head here. Can anybody point me to the relevant
manuals I could start reading?

Diego
Received on Wed Dec 06 2006 - 00:58:43 UTC