Re: UTF-8 in window titles

Jess Anderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.user
Organization jessanderson.org, madison.wi.us
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chris Croome:

>One way of testing this problem is perhaps looking at web pages
>with UTF-8 titles?

>I'm running a Fedora Core 3 desktop with all languages
>installed and all the languages on this site display fine in
>Mozilla:

>  http://www.multikulti.org.uk/

>I have WindowMaker from Fedora Extras (0.80.1 according to the
>info panel) and the title is messed on the Arabic, Bengali,
>Chinese, Farsi, Gujarati and Urdu pages on the above site. I
>realise that this old version dosn't have the fix that latest
>version has...

If I understand the Unicode web site correctly, the languages
you mention are messed up because as yet there is no standard
for dealing with languages that have context-dependent glyphs
for some given characters, which is an X server problem, rather
than a WM one.


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