On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:16:19AM +0800, phyrster wrote: > On 23:56 Sun 21 May 2006, Konstantin wrote: > > I've finally got wmii-3 working with utf8 locale after replacing > > /usr/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE > > with http://chronos.nsu.ru/fantoo/wiki/gtk1_utf8/XLC_LOCALE commenting out: > > if(!loc || !strncmp(loc, "C", 2) || !strncmp(loc, "POSIX", 6) || > > !XSupportsLocale()) > > in liblitz/font.c and recompiling wmii. Using gentoo, xorg-7 and > > -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 font. > > I have similar problem under for Chinese display. I specified a unifont in > wmiirc with no avail. I will try this hack later when I got more time. > > btw, I am not saying fluxbox is better but in flux after I specify a font > with Chinese support, the title bar shows correctly. > > Does wmii use xft fonts?
Xft is known to work better in conjunction with UTF8, because it uses iconv internally. But wmii does not support Xft, because Xft is a bloaty mess (depends on freetype (yuck!), gettext, Xrender, fontconfig, expat (yuck!), zlib...). Also, to me the artwiz fonts look much better than any Xft font I have seen so far. And the AA capabilities of Xft are a joke in my eyes. (The main problem is, that the X Window System sucks. They didn't switched to UTF8 internally (which would have been wise, and which won't have breaked anything, because UTF8 is 7bit-ASCII compliant), but they added an UTF8 hack as extension instead.) Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
