I installed proggyclean but you're font string didn't work for me. The
first entry was simply ignored and double-width characters were used for
everything. I'm using de_DE.utf8 as locale but that shouldn't be the
problem.
Well, be that as it may, I have found a font that looks acceptable at
14px (and maybe 12px) and covers Kana/Kanji/Hangul double-width
characters. It's -efont-biwidth-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*.
It's not as pretty as fixed, but I can live with that. Thanks to all for
your help.
Anthony Martin schrieb:
That was my first idea, but it seems that X
just takes the first font that fits the pattern.
I started the process of explaining how X draws
a character with X(mb|wc|utf8)DrawString but
about half way through, I was confused.
Having nice fonts in wmii/dwm really boils down
to using a UTF-8 locale and building a font set
that you like.
My locale is en_US.utf8 and my font string is:
"-*-proggyclean-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,
-misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,"
Yes, you can supply multiple fonts. Read
XCreateFontSet(3) if you want more details.
The downside to the font set above is the lack
of complete Chinese and Korean coverage. If I
ever find a 13px font that covers the GB2312
and KSC5601 encodings, there will be much
rejoicing. The smallest fonts that look good
*and* cover GB2312 and KSC5601 are the 16px
fangsong li and mincho fonts, respectively.
That's too big for my tastes.
Anthony
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Tobias Brandt
