On 12/15/06, Christian Garbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sander, does the attached patch fix your problems with the character display under dmenu? It changes the same thing that helped me to display Japanese characters in the dwm status bar.
No, I already tried that, but it didn't change anything.
Using my default locale settings[1] I need the attached patch to make dmenu print these three selections properly: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cat foo こんばんわäöü FOO こんいちわäöü FOO おはようäöü FOO But if I am using slightly a different locale[2] (I need it for Japanese character input, but I use it only temporarily) then I don't need the patch and dmenu displays these selections correctly when using the Xmb*() functions.
Hm, these all display just fine for me with LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 and font '*-terminus-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*', both with and without your patch. Funny enough though, when I tried this with the wrong font (the one urxvt said it took the Œ character from), the ü was replaced by exactly that character :-S. Turns out terminus has that character as well, and I can easily make dmenu display it with a simple echo -e '\214' | dmenu -font '*-terminus-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' So I guess all this is due to urxvt using different fonts for different characters and me not really having a clue how that affects things. So it seems that there's no problem in dmenu here, although I'm not completely sure yet exactly what's going on. When (if?) I find out I'll let you know... Greetings, Sander.
