Hi Norbet,
Which version of xmobar are you using?
In previous versions of xmonad-contrib, utf-8 support was optional;
since 0.9.1 it has been mandatory (and hence your version of xmonad
should support it).
However, in xmobar it is still only optional and needs to be built with
--flags=with_utf8 for utf-8 support.
I use xmobar with darcs xmonad (and contrib) and utf-8 works fine; here
is what I use:
,----
| myLogHook panel = do dynamicLogWithPP $ ivanmPP { ppOutput = hPutStrLn panel }
|
| ivanmPP :: PP
| ivanmPP = defaultPP { ppCurrent = xmobarColor "green" "" . wrap "[" "]" . addIndex
| , ppVisible = xmobarColor "blue" "" . wrap "(" ")" . addIndex
| , ppHidden = addIndex
| , ppHiddenNoWindows = xmobarColor "tan" "" . addIndex
| , ppUrgent = xmobarColor "red" "black" . pad
| , ppLayout = xmobarColor "sienna" ""
| , ppSep = pad $ xmobarColor "VioletRed" "" "※"
| , ppWsSep = xmobarColor "gray" "" $ pad "Ѻ"
| , ppTitle = xmobarColor "green" "" . shorten 40
| , ppExtras = maildirs
| , ppOrder = \ (ws:l:_:es) -> ws : l : es
| }
| where
| addIndex x = (show . (+1) . fromJust . findIndex (x==)) myWorkspaces ++ " : " ++ x
|
| maildirs = map ($ "/home/ivan/Maildir/") [maildirUnread, maildirNew]
`----
In case you can't see them, there are utf-8 characters in ppSep and ppWsSep.
Norbert Zeh
Hi folks,
I'm using xmobar as my status bar and have problems to get UTF8 characters to display correctly. I did the following tests:
1. Start xmobar, reading input from stdin. Type in some unicode characters. Xmobar displays them fine.
2. Add some unicode characters to my loghook in xmonad. Things come out garbled.
3. Instead of piping to xmobar, make xmonad write to a file. The file contents are also garbled. To be more precise, they are exactly what xmobar shows me in the second test.
So this seems like the problem is on xmonad's end, not xmobar's. I'm running the latest darcs version of xmonad. Any ideas what could be causing this?
Thanks, Norbert _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad
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