[dev] Encoding errors with umlauts in dwm statusbar and dmenu

[orschiro]

Hello guys,

I encountered a problem with umlauts that are used in the title of windows
and are presented in dwm statusbar. Furthermore also umlauts in dmenu are
wrong displayed.

With gohufont  I use a font that supports unicode so
that should not be the problem.

I'm working with the latest hg pull of dwm.

Any tipps?

Best regards

orschiro

Re: [dev] Encoding errors with umlauts in dwm statusbar and dmenu

[Anselm R Garbe]

Hi,

On 19 April 2010 21:08,   wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I encountered a problem with umlauts that are used in the title of windows
> and are presented in dwm statusbar. Furthermore also umlauts in dmenu are
> wrong displayed.
>
> With gohufont I use a font that supports unicode so that should not be the
> problem.
>
> I'm working with the latest hg pull of dwm.
>
> Any tipps?

Try "-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" first, and if that works, try
"-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-*-*", the more wildcards, the
more fonts X will match that provide suitable glyphs.

You can also ; separate several to create a font line that covers
those glyphs you are after from different fonts, in case your existing
font only claims to support many glyphs but doesn't in truth (or only
with different size/options etc).

Cheers,
Anselm

Re: [dev] Encoding errors with umlauts in dwm statusbar and dmenu

[orschiro]

Hello anselm,

you're obviously right. When I only use wildcards the problems with umlauts
do not occur. But why can xterm, that uses the same font, display umlauts
but dwm not?

regards

2010/4/19 Anselm R Garbe 

> Hi,
>
> On 19 April 2010 21:08,   wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > I encountered a problem with umlauts that are used in the title of
> windows
> > and are presented in dwm statusbar. Furthermore also umlauts in dmenu are
> > wrong displayed.
> >
> > With gohufont I use a font that supports unicode so that should not be
> the
> > problem.
> >
> > I'm working with the latest hg pull of dwm.
> >
> > Any tipps?
>
> Try "-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" first, and if that works, try
> "-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-*-*", the more wildcards, the
> more fonts X will match that provide suitable glyphs.
>
> You can also ; separate several to create a font line that covers
> those glyphs you are after from different fonts, in case your existing
> font only claims to support many glyphs but doesn't in truth (or only
> with different size/options etc).
>
> Cheers,
> Anselm
>
>

Re: [dev] Encoding errors with umlauts in dwm statusbar and dmenu

[Anselm R Garbe]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:42:50PM +0200, orsch...@gmail.com wrote:
> you're obviously right. When I only use wildcards the problems with umlauts
> do not occur. But why can xterm, that uses the same font, display umlauts
> but dwm not?

Perhaps dwm has a bug ;) I need to scan what xterm does.

Cheers,
Anselm

Re: [dev] Encoding errors with umlauts in dwm statusbar and dmenu

[orschiro]

Do you need any additional information from me? I'm glad to help you in some
ways. :)

And when you are try to fix this could you please also try to correct the
flash fullscreen issue?

With that two things fixed dwm would be so awesome.


2010/4/19 Anselm R Garbe 

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:42:50PM +0200, orsch...@gmail.com wrote:
> > you're obviously right. When I only use wildcards the problems with
> umlauts
> > do not occur. But why can xterm, that uses the same font, display umlauts
> > but dwm not?
>
> Perhaps dwm has a bug ;) I need to scan what xterm does.
>
> Cheers,
> Anselm
>
>

Re: [dev] Encoding errors with umlauts in dwm statusbar and dmenu

[Anselm R Garbe]

On 19 April 2010 22:07,   wrote:
> Do you need any additional information from me? I'm glad to help you in some
> ways. :)

No.

> And when you are try to fix this could you please also try to correct the
> flash fullscreen issue?

I'm hunting that one for quite some time already. I think flash has a
bug, but I'm looking for a workaround.. The focus handling in dwm has
to be optimised even further to make a workaround possible. But it's
not so simple and I didn't got my head around what flash is actually
doing the last time... but there is some new motivation after looking
at the TSAR explosions from 1961.

> With that two things fixed dwm would be so awesome.

Yes.

Cheers,
Anselm

Re: [dev] Encoding errors with umlauts in dwm statusbar and dmenu

[Aurélien Aptel]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Anselm R Garbe  wrote:
> Perhaps dwm has a bug ;) I need to scan what xterm does.

Haha. Good luck with that :)