Re: [dwm] unicode characters in status

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:48:33AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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 ..

That tells me more. Tell me your output of locale.

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