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azerty

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dwm - Display non-western chars

I want to display some non-western chars in my dwm status bar, i.e. Greek and a few Arabic

I tried to compile dwm with some Greek and Arab chars for the tag names but dwm only displays some dotted '[]' instead of my selected chars.

Is there a possibility to use non-western characters as tag names in the dwm status bar?

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dolby

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Re: dwm - Display non-western chars

afaik no. check the dwm mailing list. there are some related posts even from 2.x dwm release

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jadeshade

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Re: dwm - Display non-western chars

does the font you're compiling dwm with have glyphs for those chars?

azerty

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Re: dwm - Display non-western chars

I simply don't know. How can I find out?

At the moment I use the default font,

-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

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Any suggestions for a suitable font?

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upsidaisium

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Re: dwm - Display non-western chars

as dolby mentioned, this has been brought up again in the mailing list.  not sure if it was resolved, though.

terminus might be a decent font to choose, but i think you might run into the same problems again anyway

Last edited by upsidaisium (2007-09-03 16:24:42)

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Re: dwm - Display non-western chars

as dolby mentioned, this has been brought up again in the mailing list.  not sure if it was resolved, though.

terminus might be a decent font to choose, but i think you might run into the same problems again anyway

There is a testcase there though :
http://www.suckless.org/pipermail/dwm/2 … 03391.html

wget -q -O - nic.ru | iconv -f windows-1251 -t utf-8 | grep '<title>' | dmenu -fn "-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1"

That doesn't work properly indeed. But with "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" instead, it works fine.

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azerty

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Re: dwm - Display non-western chars

I just read the the link you gave me, upsidaisium.

I tried to display some non-western chars, Japanese, Chinese, Greek, and Russian worked, even if they're displayed in weird way. (fat) Only Arabic doesn't work with my current (default) font.

Here you'll find a pic how these non-western chars are displayed by dwm. First is Arabic, then Greek and after that Cyrillic.

What should I do to get all these chars displayed and above all get them normally displayed without being too fat as seen in the pic.

Maybe my question should better be: Which font do I have to use to display all these chars correctly?

Last edited by azerty (2007-09-03 17:28:55)

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