Re: [dwm] unicode characters in status

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:22:41AM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:58:11AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > 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-*"
> > 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
>
> Well here you see that it doesn't finds an appropriate fontset
> for ISO8859-1, hence you don't see any default characters I
> suspect...

I don't think it's a problem with the font, though, fixed works fine in
xterm, mlterm or emacs.

> > with terminus I get
> > missing fontset: JISX0201.1976-0
> > missing fontset: GB2312.1980-0
> > missing fontset: KSC5601.1987-0
> > missing fontset: JISX0208.1983-0
>
> Those missing fontsets can be ignored, they are Knaji and such
> stuff, the fonts don't support anyways. Still the situation is
> not sufficient.

Yes, but terminus fails to show Umlauts as well ...

It appears the issue is Firefox-specific. 'xterm -T Glühwein' produces
Umlauts in the status bar. I'm getting more confused by the minute ..

Diego
Received on Wed Dec 06 2006 - 11:49:10 UTC