On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:04:25 +0400 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: [...] > FP> Well, actually, this bug is *not* in the xfonts-artwiz package, since I > FP> haven't installed it and I am not using the glisp font. > FP> As I said in the bug report, I customize the Meta style on the fly, by > FP> using the following overlay file: > > For me this problem is reproduced only with the font of artwiz.
This is really strange. Which font are you using? > > Your configuration works fine: > > FP> $ cat ~/.fluxbox/overlay > FP> background: none > FP> *font: -*-terminus-*-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* > > Please will execute a command: > > grep styleOverlay ~/.fluxbox/init $ grep styleOverlay ~/.fluxbox/init session.styleOverlay: ~/.fluxbox/overlay > > Is an option 'session.styleOverlay:' set for you? Definitely: and it's working, since I can change font by editing ~/.fluxbox/overlay . I did some tests with other fonts. Moving ~/.fluxbox/overlay away makes Fluxbox choose a horribly inappropriate font, and with the same issue in handling UTF-8 characters (I re-performed the PROMPT test, see my original bug report for details). Setting $ cat .fluxbox/overlay background: none *font: -*-fixed-*-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* makes the Meta style look not really good, and doesn't completely solve the issue with UTF-8 characters, even though something changes. In detail: * the PROMPT test again produces a mess of odd symbols (but please note that I am able to correctly see the same Russian word with the same font in xfontsel!) * the arrow web page test correctly shows the first four arrows, but not the remaining eleven (but please note that I am able to correctly see the first six arrows with the same font in xfontsel!) * the Russian web page test shows cyrillic letters, but in horrible shape (as if they were shown in poor man's bold; again please note that I am able to correctly see the same Russian words with the same font in xfontsel!) If I set: $ cat .fluxbox/overlay background: none *font: -*-clean-*-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* the results I get are basically identical to those described in the original bug report for the terminus font: each of the three tests fails to correctly show UTF-8 characters in window titles, even if the font is capable of representing cyrillic letters and (at least some of the) arrows. I am more and more convinced that there's something wrong in the way Fluxbox handles UTF-8 strings... -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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