Re: [PATCH] xft and menus recoding from local charset to utf8

[John Harper <jsh unfactored org>]

Hi,

thanks for resending these patches, I had forgotten about the problem..

On Feb 14, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Anton Kazennikov wrote:
> I use xft font rendering since pango is broken(I have pango 1.8.0 and 
> it
> displays all text in single font). The problem with xft is that xft 
> don't
> displays russian character correctly. It is needed to recode a string 
> to utf8
> before displaying it.

do you understand why pango doesn't work? fixing that may be easier..

> Another patch is for window-list menu. There are similar problems: 
> cyrillic
> characters aren't displayed at all. The patch is a very little 
> modification
> of the already submitted:

I'm wondering if instead it might be better to make sawfish use UTF-8 
encoding everywhere, i.e. every text property is automatically 
converted to UTF-8 when read, and we try to never work with text in the 
user's locale.. (since that seems to be the root of all these problems)

any comments?

    John