Re: [RP] [PATCH] if compiling with xft, hardcode encoding to utf-8

[Bernhard R. Link]

* Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas <address@hidden> [120630 18:39]:
> > Unlike the X primitives, Xft does not seem to support
> > utf-8 when drawing a string encoded according to the current
> > locale. So if compiling with Xft, hardcode the encoding to be
> > used to utf-8.
>
> This has the undesirable effect to break existing setups.  People using
> for example latin1 wouldn't be able to input and echo latin1 characters.
> I'm no unicode expert, but if ratpoison has to get unicode support, then
> it should probably do it correctly, right?

without Xft fonts, UTF-8 works correctly. With Xft one has to use a
single-character encoding or use utf8. do you know any way to know in
which case libX11 currently is so one can call the correct Xft function?

        Bernhard R. Link