On Monday 02 November 2009, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:52:39AM +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: > >Hi there, > > > >Can wmii support multiple fonts? This way if glyphs are not found in the > >first font, the next one is being searched. > >I am looking for some functionality along the lines of > >http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.pod#How_ > >does_rxvt_unicode_choose_fonts (yes, this link actually works). > > > >Most fonts do not contain the glyphs for my native language, so I am > > ending up with blank squares instead. If I modify wmii font to one that > > contains native glyphs, the latin letters are just ugly.. > > > >OTOH, shouldn't fontconfig do this (select matching fonts by language) > > by default? it obviously is not the case in my setup, and I couldn't > > find any docs on how to make this work the way I expect it to. > > wmii supports multiple fonts in exactly the same way as rxvt. > Just list them separated by commas. If you want fontconfig, > prefix the font string with xft:, otherwise you get regular X11 > fontsets, which have atrocious unicode support.
I've tried this, and it looks like it is not working. Running $ wmiir xwrite /ctl font 'xft:Arial' presents the Hebrew characters correctly (in windows title, and mpd status area), while $ wmiir xwrite /ctl font 'xft:terminus-10' presents just white boxes instead. So I try: $ wmiir xwrite /ctl font 'xft:terminus-10,xft:Arial' but no change from previous (white boxes). I also tried not using xft for the first font: $ wmiir xwrite /ctl font '-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1,xft:Arial' but they all give the same result. I've tried to run urxvt with the same settings, and it seem to work fine: $ urxvt -fn '-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,xft:Miriam Mono CLM' (in testing the terminal, I used a mono-spaced font - but all fonts give the same result). I must be missing something? my wmii version is hg2582, and I am using rumai on top. ן, --yuval
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