Re: UTF-8 in window titles

On Monday 14 March 2005 00:27, Bernd Eggink wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:47:10PM +0200, Dan Pascu wrote:
> > I ran WPrefs with the german language and it shows chars with umlauts
> > correctly in both the window-list menu and the window titlebar
> >
> > Maybe the encoding you use for the text in the titlebar is not utf-8
>
> Hm. I use utf-8 throughout my system (LANG=de_DE.UTF-8). You are
> right, umlauts appear correctly in the applications menu title, but
> only there, not in the title bar of a normal window (like xterm). For
> example, starting xterm with the option "-T bäh" produces a title bar
> with a single "b". The same happens when a Java program calls
> frame.setTitle("bäh").
>
> Other window managers (fvwm and openbox) display titles correctly on
> the same system. So I guess it must be a WindowMaker issue.

it's not. the title must be encoded in utf-8. if it's not displaying properly 
it's not utf-8 encoded. what you use for LANG is irrelevant, what is relevant 
is what encoding that this ä gets when you input it from the kbd. I can bet 
it gets encoded in iso-8859-1 (i.e. your keyboard doesn't produce utf-8 
encoded chars).

If the ä character in this email was introduced the same way as in the titles 
of your windows than that's the case.

In this email the character ä has the hex code 0xE4, which is the iso-8859-1 
encoding. The utf-8 encoding for ä is: 0xC3 0xA4 (2 bytes)

Try this, which will produce the utf-8 char for ä even if your kbd doesn't 
produce utf-8 directly:

xterm -T `echo -e "b\xC3\xA4h"`

>
> Bernd

-- 
Dan
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