Hello all, I've read other recent post here about the same issue but the original question is not answered there. Not a big problem but I'd like to know if it's really posible get bitmap fonts rendering utf-8 characters.
I use en_US.UTF-8 locale. Using scalable fonts (i.e. xft:sans-10) all utf-8 characters are showed fine. But I couldn't get it work with bitmap fonts like: Style * Font -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 I read the man page and tried some stated there. The output of PrintInfo: ------- fvwm info on locale: locale: en_US.UTF-8, Modifier: Default Charset: X: ISO8859-1, Iconv: Not defined, Bidi: No XOM Charsets: ISO8859-1 ISO8859-1 ISO8859-2 Number of loaded font: 1 * Font number 0 fvwm info: Name: -*-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Cache count: 1 Type: FontSet Charset: X: ISO8859-1, Iconv: Not defined, Bidi: No height: 13, ascent: 11, descent: 2 shadow size: 0, shadow offset: 0, shadow direction:0 X info: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-2 --------- shows three fonts not included by me in any config file. I use just two, the helvetica above and a fixed (both iso10646-1). Some clue? Thanks Walter