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 <garb...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > On 19 April 2010 21:08, <orsch...@gmail.com> 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 > >
