Re: multibyte chars in window titles

[Andrea Vettorello <dnc thctribe net>]

Jonathan Koren wrote:

> I'm running sawfish 1.3+cvs20040617 (Debian's unstable package).
>
> Sawfish has never supported multibyte characters in window titles, but in
> the past it used to display them as hexcodes, such as \x{43af}.  Now
> sawfish doesn't update the title at all when presnted with wide
> characters.
>
> My question is simple.  Are multibyte character ever going to be supported
> in sawfish, and if so when?  I ask, only because it seems like sawfish
> development has stalled.
>  

I'm running Sid too and after setting the locales to UTF-8 (i've done 
this using the option on GDM, but should be the same reconfiguring the 
locales packages or exporting the LC_CTYPE env variables) show multibyte 
characters on titles, at least with firefox, so sawfish seems capable of 
display them. Anyway seems there are some problems with other 
applications, for example opening a file with gedit that contains non 
ASCII charachters on the filename.


Andrea

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