So what you&#39;re saying is, the chinese characters display correctly with the chinese font, but incorrectly with a non-chinese font. Sounds like everything is working to me. ;)<br><br>Unless you are saying that the chinese characters work with the other font in programs aside from xmobar?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Chengqi(Lars) Song <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:songcq@gmail.com" target="_blank">songcq@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">hi,<br>
<br>
I&#39;m using xmobar with xmonad. I found that it&#39;s hard to display Chinese characters in xmobar. So I made the following tests:<br>
<br>
Set up:<br>
 1. my system locale is en_US.utf-8<br>
 2. my xmobar is compiled with xft and utf8 support<br>
 3. in my xmobarrc, the font is set to be &quot;xft:monospace-6&quot;<br>
 3. in terminal, I run &quot;cat | xmobar ~/.xmobarrc&quot;<br>
<br>
The results:<br>
 1. English can be displayed well. But all Chinese characters are displayed in squares.<br>
 2. If I change the font in xmobarrc to be a Chinese font &quot;xft:SimSun-6&quot;, then the display is correct.<br>
<br>
So I guess it might be a bug of xft binding in ghc&#39;s library. Do you have similiar experience in xmobar or someother programs?<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Lars<br>
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