Issue 154: add support for UTF-8 locale in NamedWindows and DynamicLog http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=154 Comment #5 by andrea.rossato:
Maybe I missed something (once again :), but I don't understand you when it you're talking about iconv library. Why should window manager ever convert user's data (text) from one encoding to another?
X11 itself, it provides full locale support for free! Just call setlocale, use Xmb* function (why convert strings to wc?) and get it!
Maybe it's me the one who missed something, even if I don't see how a shell prompt - and the strings it may produce - can be related to the Xlib locale support. But I would like to stress my basic ignorance on any C strings related topic, as I think a repeatedly pointed out. And on any low level way of representing stuff like strings, numbers or whatever. This patch/pre-bug report was meant to let you know that setLocale is already called when locale aware functions are used. And this is done because of the XFT support that was added some time ago. I don't know anything about XFT too. For the record. Actually report was originally meant as a joke to attach a patch to let someone run an i18n aware WM now. I didn't mean to do anything but that. Sorry for the noise. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings