All your non-working pics are actually working. Your browser is just setting the title in an url-encoded way.
Encoding ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █ (from utf8) gives %E2%96%81%20%20%20%20%20%E2%96%82%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%E2%96%83%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%E2%96%84%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%E2%96%85%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%E2%96%86%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%E2%96%87%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%E2%96%88 See <http://www.hypergurl.com/urlencode.html>. On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Martin Swift <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yuval, > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:59:29PM +0300, Yuval Hager wrote: >> Some non-latin characters are displayed garbled within wmii (windows titles, >> tag names) - attached is Firefox window title I get. I tried using ucs >> fonts (*-ISO10646-1), but then everything is garbled, even latin text. > > I'm able to get some decent results for most characters using > something like > WMII_FONT=' -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1' > [see attached: wmii-font_example-13-working.png] > > For the terminal I've had to use > -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > to get most characters to display, for example block elements such as > ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █ > > These, however, still don't show up in the status or title bars. > [see attached: wmii-font_example-1?-nonwork.png] > >> I have no problem displaying non-latin text in applications, like xterm or >> firefox. > > Do you know which font-string the terminal is run with? I've never > been able to figure out these font lines properly to know which font, > precisely is being used. > > Part of this could be fixed, but I don't know where wmii breaks down. > Furthermore, I'm running wmii-3.6 which is well dated so if you're > running a more up to date version you might be able to have all your > problems fixed. Let's hope someone else who can give better help > responds as well. > > Cheers, > Martin >
