Re: [wmii] accented chars in title- and statusbars

From: Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam_AT_wmii.de>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:37:39 +0200

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 09:23:16PM +0200, thomas wrote:
> Hi all,
> My system is 100% UTF8 and I have a problem with french (é, à, ê,
> etc.) and german letters (ß, ä, ö, usw.), which are not displayed
> correctly in the status- and title bars, whatever the font I use.
> Did I configure wmii incorrectly ?

Sadly the UTF8 handling in X is quite a mess. I uncommented the
Xutf8* parts, the release uses Xmb only. I noticed, that it is
impossible to get sane UTF8 handling, if one don't uses iconv,
which is on its way for wmii-4.

Regards,

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Received on Sun May 21 2006 - 21:37:39 UTC

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