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" -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff