Re: [dwm] cyrillic characters in the status bar (again)

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 07:43:01PM +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> Hi Petar,
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 03:22:15AM +0200, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> > the following problem has been widely discussed here, but I'm still
> > unable to display some ciryllic characters on my (terminus) status bar.
> >
> > Other fonts (like `clean') let dwm fall back on `fixed' if the character
> > is cyrillic. However, umlauts and all swedish or slavic characters get
> > displayed well with `terminus'.
> >
> > The following example illustrates the whole problem pretty well:
> >
> > http://www.smokva.net/pub/dmenu.html
> >
> >
> > Long time ago, Anselm got the same problem with `nic.ru':
> >
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.dwm/1139
> >
> >
> > However, I'm not sure what happend then -- it seems that Anselm solved
> > it and released dwm 2.6.
>
> Well the funny thing is that now I'm able to reproduce your
> issue with terminus, but not with fixed (like that one from
> config.default.h).
>
> I tried with dwm-2.6 and it has the same results as dwm-4.4.1.
> So I assume something changed on the OS side since then (I
> updated my Ubuntu distro a few months ago, maybe some X settings
> or X resources changed, maybe the locales behave differently now).
>
> Does anyone get correct results with using terminus and
> accessing www.nic.ru in firefox?

To make testing easier -- just copy/paste the following line into your
terminal and watch the dmenu-bar:

wget -q -O - nic.ru | iconv -f windows-1251 -t utf-8 | grep '<title>' | dmenu -fn "-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1"

I tried it on Ubuntu 7.04 and Archlinux. Same result.

Thanks & kind regards,

Petar
Received on Thu Aug 30 2007 - 13:00:27 UTC