Re: [dwm] unicode characters in status

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:52:23AM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> 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.

cerebus:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Diego
Received on Thu Dec 07 2006 - 00:28:14 UTC