On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:51:29AM -0400, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote:
I'm using `en_US.UTF-8'. And it's a utf8 font.
Ok, I'm getting there. Almost ready to send a few patches. I think that the only viable approach is the one suggested by Mats: the use of locale technology. This requires importing with the FFI: 1. setlocale() 2. X(mb/wc)DrawImageString 3. X(mb/wc)TextEscapement then a few functions included in Mats patches: 1. XwcDrawString and XwcTextExtents 2. XCreateFontSet, XFreeFontSet, and the FontSet structure. I need to have some directions from Dons and Spencer here, since this requires some additions to X11-extras. But still there's that setlocaole stuff. If I included it in XPrompt, XPrompt.hs becomes XPrompt.hsc and must be inclued in xmonad.cabal for ghc to process it with hsc2hs. I don't know... I still have some problems in dealing properly with directory/file names when they contain non ascii characters, though. I can display them correctly but they are seen, on the Haskell side, as multiple single byte characters, so "length" returns wrong numbers. Andrea