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andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

[solved] XMonad + Dzen2 = No UTF8

I've read this question in XMonad's FAQ, but it doesn't solve the problem.

I've imported "System.IO.UTF8", but I still see weird characters when a window has non-ASCI chars on it.

...
import System.IO.UTF8 
...
main = do dz <- spawnPipe myStatusBar
          xmonad $ myUrgencyHook $ defaultConfig
                     { borderWidth        = myBorderWidth
                     , focusedBorderColor = myFocusedBorderColor
                     , normalBorderColor  = myNormalBorderColor

                     , focusFollowsMouse  = followMouse
                     , mouseBindings      = myMouseBindings
                     , keys               = myKeys
                     , modMask            = myModMask

                     , terminal           = myTerminal
                     , workspaces         = myWorkspaces

                     , logHook            = (dynamicLogWithPP $ myDzenPP dz) >> updatePointer Nearest
                     , layoutHook         = myLayoutHook
                     , manageHook         = myManageHook 
                     }
...
myDzenPP h = defaultPP { ppCurrent         = dzenColor "#6b862f" "#333333" . pad
                       , ppHidden          = dzenColor "#e0ddc8" "#222222" . pad
                       , ppHiddenNoWindows = dzenColor "#999789" "#222222" . pad
                       , ppTitle           = dzenColor "#999789" "#222222" . shorten 120
                       , ppOutput          = System.IO.UTF8.hPutStrLn h
                       , ppWsSep           = ""
                       , ppUrgent          = dzenColor "#ee6363" "#222222" . dzenStrip
                       , ppLayout          = dzenColor "#6b862f" "#222222" .
                                             (\x -> (case (drop 10 x) of
                                                       "Tall"              -> "Tall"
                                                       "Mirror Tall"       -> "Mirror"
                                                       "Full"              -> "Full"
                                                       "ReflectX IM ThreeCol" -> "IM"
                                                       _                   -> pad x))
                       }
...

Everywhere else and in others WMs it works fine.

TIA

Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2009-09-07 01:55:18)

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rizzix

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Registered: 2005-10-22

Posts: 55

Re: [solved] XMonad + Dzen2 = No UTF8

Use System.IO instead. For some strange reason System.IO.UTF8 did not work for me either, but System.IO did.

andre.ramaciotti

Member

From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: [solved] XMonad + Dzen2 = No UTF8

From all the things that occurred to me, not doing anything wasn't one of them.

Thanks!

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