On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:11 PM, 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?
What version of GHC do you use? Starting from version 6.12 GHC properly encodes strings. Earlier versions just truncated characters to 0-255 range. If you use GHC 6.10 or earlier you should use encodeString from utf8-string package to encode string in utf8 before writing to pipe.