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ridcully

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Registered: 2009-03-28

Posts: 52

xmobar and unicode characters

Hi,

I want to put unicode characters in my xmobar menu. Unfortunately, xmobar has problems to render the character(s) (it just shows an empty rectangle). There are few threads on this topic in the forum, e.g.:

- xmobar refuses to play nicely with unicode. [somewhat SOLVED], 2010
- Render specific character, 2013

I'm wondering if anybody managed to put unicode chars in its xmobarrc and the chars are displayed correctly? I want to put a high voltage unicode symbol for the battery and clouds for the weather. It is not really important, but it would be nice. I'm also wondering if I copied over the unicode character in the wrong way. What's the best way to write down a unicode character in ther xmobar configuration?

Thanks in advance!