2013/11/25 Carlos Torres <vlaadbr...@gmail.com>: >> 2013/11/25 Martti Kühne <mysat...@gmail.com>: >>> How many people commit suicide per year because their application >>> windows use utf-8 titles? >>> > > I submitted another "simpler patch" that doesn't revert the setting of > WM_NAME to XStringStyle. Since i don't really have a use case for > UTF8. > > The simpler patch only adds _NET_WM_NAME, and as > UTF8_STRING for consistency. which wmctrl works with. (not that this > fix is solely driven by wmctrl. i wouldn't want it to, i just happend > to test this on an old st and noticed the difference). > > On 11/25/13, Alexander S. <alex0pla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is it definitely okay to use Xutf8TextListToTextProperty with XStringStyle? >> > > i didn't think about that to be honest, but i did think about the flame > possibly ignited by breaking the peoples st title when they use utf8... > Well, st once couldn't handle "umlauts" (as in, all utf-8) in title, which was very frustrating to use with... well, any window manager (I managed to configure dwm for itf-8 without using xft), and easy enough to fix. I get to use utf-8 quite often. I am ambivalent about not setting WM_NAME at all. This is a standard thing to set. This is a thing on which DWM can match windows, if I'm not mixing anything up.
-- Best regards, Alexander.
