fREW Schmidt said:
> As far as I can tell dmenu doesn't work with unicode input.
> 
> To see an example, check this out:
> 
>     perl -E'binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)"); say "\N{HEAVY BLACK HEART}"'
> 
> vs
>     perl -E'binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)"); say "\N{HEAVY BLACK HEART}"' 
> | dmenu
> 
> Anyone have tips on making this work?  Thanks!

Just choose proper font, eg.:

    perl -E'binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)"); say "\N{HEAVY BLACK HEART}"' | 
dmenu -fn "-*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1"

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

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