On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:41:21PM +0100, Anthony Brown wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:20:00PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > > > > I'm not sure if something like a -u toggle for dwm and dmenu > > could be considered useful for such people, which has the effect > > to disable the whole locale/UTF-8 handling. But who uses such > > locales still today? Or in other words, who uses a font which is > > not compatible with the locale in use? Shall we ignore the > > problem? > > > I think the best way to tackle this issue is to point the fonts/locale > issue out in the manpages for dwm and dmenu (or in a readme) so that > people are at least encouraged to look into their font setups before > complaining about dwm. I have had lots of trouble in the past with font > in other WMs and at least with dwm things are relatively simple (if one > is happy with a font like terminus and simple xterms). > > I don't think dwm should try to anticipate all possible font/locale > setups. Given that dwm will be used by people who are already happy to > configure and compile it by themselves, they should also be willing to > invest a little effort in getting the fonts right.
Nah, I found the final solution ;) X is capable on its own to pick up the right font, if no registry is supplied. The following default should work for all: #define FONT "fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" I think it's time for a release... Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://suckless.org/~arg/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
