Re: [dwm] [PATCH] Xft support for dmenu

* Antoni Grzymala <antoni_AT_chopin.edu.pl> [080210 03:00]:
> Alexander Polakov dixit (2008-02-10, 02:41):
>
> > > Yeah. Thanks, it helped me with some Czech characters in UTF-8. Only one
> > > (rather cosmetic) flaw is that with your patch dmenu is little bit
> > > higher.
> > >
> > Thanks for the feedback. I noticed the height issue myself, but don't
> > know how to fix it. With some fonts it gets *really* huge (:
> > Is there any Xft gurus around?
> >
> > PS. the same quick and dirty hack for dwm http://koluthcka.ru/fwm/dwm-4.7-xft.diff
>
> Hope these patches don't spark a discussion like once with ArchLinux and
> ion3 :).
>
> The previous email made me wonder, as I always thought I don't have
> problems with displaying UTF-8 characters with the bitmat font (given
> correct encoding, like: -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1, but
> I just checked and in fact it does *not* work, so maybe it's a subject
> that should be looked into in mainline dwm/dmenu code.
>

Please try this recipe, it helped me some time ago (don't forget about
a backup):

wget http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/suse/suse/x86_64/update/9.3/rpm/i586/xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-30.3.i586.patch.rpm
rpm2tar xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-30.3.i586.patch.rpm
tar xf xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-30.3.i586.patch.tar
cp usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/

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