Comment #1 on issue 348 by alexey.skladnoy: Encoding task force http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=348 Modules which import Codec.Binary.UTF8.*: * XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops OK used to encode desktop names. * XMonad.Actions.Search OK used to encode URLs * XMonad.Util.XSelection Seems to be OK. Documentation is outdated and shoud be updated * XMonad.Util.Font Doesn't use function but jus rexport them under different names: `encodeOutout' and `decodeInput' encodeOutput is only used in X.Prompt.Shell and X.Hooks.DynamicLog I think it would be better to remove encodeOutput function and just import encodeString from utf8-string. decodeInput is used in X.Prompt.Shell and X.Promt modules. X.Promt deserve special investigation since it stopped correcty work with unicode some time ago. == Unicode bugs == Here is list of found bugs related to unicode: X.Hooks.DynamicLog: xmonadPropLog' Function sets UTF8_STRING atom without properly encoding it. Actually it require utf8-encoded string as input. X.Hooks.DynamicLog: Returns utf8-encoded string. X.Hooks.SetWMName: setWMName Doesn't properly encode UTF8_STRING atom. Comment from function says: "now only accepts latin1 names to eliminate dependency on utf8 encoder" Since utf8-string dependency is now madatory this is clearly outdated X.Prompt Some time ago it suddently begun to mangle non-ASCII input. Attachments: Search-unicode-clean.dpatch 40.7 KB