Re: [dwm] Font recomendation to get unicode in statusbar?

The "Fixed" font is superb. For unicode I've had great luck with
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* which has flawless
greek support as well as support for a variety of arrows, miscellaneous and
technical glyphs. I discovered the fixed font after I decided I wanted to
take notes for physics class on my laptop. I have also written a handy
script that utalizes dmenu and a hierarchical file format to browse, select,
and copy unicode charecters to the keyboard. I'll post the script to the
list in the near future.
Best,

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IT Daniher
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Szabolcs Nagy <nszabolcs_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/17/09, Preben Randhol <randhol_AT_pvv.org> wrote:
> > Problem is that fixed font in xterm looks nice, but in the status bar
> > it looks ugly for Greek language. the letters are both bold and italic.
> > How do you define font[] ?
>
> you are right greek looks ugly here as well
> maybe the XCreateFontSet() + XmbDrawString() approach is not optimal
> and XLoadQueryFont() + XDrawString16() should be used..
> someone should figure out how fonts, encodings and locales work in X
>
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