On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 08:20:34AM -0500, Robert Winkler wrote: > Getting closer: I tried the compiled st in different window managers > (thanks for the hint to test the binary in different environments!). > > In Plasma, spectrwm, and dwm, UTF-8 of st does not work. > > But SURPRISE: in Gnome (Wayland, PoP OS! 22.04 LTS), it does! > > This means that the compiled st is working fine, but something strange > is happening related to the environment. But what? > > Anyone has an idea, what could be the difference between Gnome and DWM > with respect to the font encoding? > >
Compare the output of env in the two situations. Something I noticed in one of your mails: you have en_US.UTF-8 in your locale output while here, on Gentoo, I have en_US.utf8.