My patch was attached in my very first mail. For your convenience I attached it again in this mail.
It applies to dmenu-4.6 source code, not sure for the git version though...
With the patch and a UTF-8 locale you will (hopefully) be able to type Chinese
characters in dmenu.
PS. I did not find any occurrence of wcwidth in dmenu-4.6 source code. Don't
know about st...
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发件人: Pickfire <pickf...@riseup.net>
发送时间: 2016年5月9日 7:40
收件人: dev@suckless.org
主题: Re: [dev] 答复: [dev] 答复: [dev] 转发: [dmenu] support for input methods
On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:31:21PM +0000, 张 睿 wrote:
>Can you make it clear about whether you can _type_ anything with fcitx with
>the git version of dmenu?
I can type something with fcitx but not chinese characters.
>If yes, All right. I guess it was a bad idea that I did not try the git
>version before making a patch. :-(
>Otherwise, please try out my patch.
Where's your patch?
>Anyway, now I can at least type something in dmenu. Wrong cursor position is
>just a minor problem, since I hardly need any editing for what I type in. I
>guess it has something to do with calculating the width of a text, and it
>should be easy to fix.
It should have something to do with wcwidth, I am not very sure, you can
take a look in st's code.
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dmenu-im.patch
Description: dmenu-im.patch
