Re: [dwm] dwm's future

From: David E. Thiel <lx_AT_redundancy.redundancy.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:07:50 -0701

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 05:09:26PM +0200, Antoni Grzymala wrote:
> Mate Nagy dixit (2009-04-26, 17:01):
> > However, I strongly believe that the major problem of dwm currently is
> > not font handling (8bit ascii bitmap fonts are perfectly fine thank
> > you);
>
> This is a very selfish view. 8-bit character sets suck big way, even not
> considering anything outside accented latin characters (which either
> work or not, usually not quite).

Agreed. Proven fact: non-English-speaking people exist. Minimalism and
simplicity shouldn't exclude basic functionality like displaying
characters in the language the user speaks.
Received on Sun Apr 26 2009 - 19:08:50 UTC

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