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Author Topic: [EN] utf-8 and fluxbox  (Read 2031 times)

Offline michaa7

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[EN] utf-8 and fluxbox
« on: 2012/12/18, 21:18:08 »
I ran into problems when creating a website and putting mars- and venus ( ♂ ♀ ) symbol in the titel of the page (indicating that a course is gender specific).

Now, whereas this symbols are displayed correctly within the page, it isn't in the titel (only empty rectagular symbols).

It seems my fluxbox setup is not configured for UTF-8 (although it is the first time I have problems with "letters").

I tried tho change:
 ~.fluxbox/styles/mystyle from iso10646-1 to utf-8 (don't know whether it has to be utf8, though):
Quote
!window.font:         -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
!menu.frame.font:      -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
!menu.title.font:      -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
!toolbar.clock.font:      -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
!toolbar.iconbar.focused.font:   -*-terminus-bold-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
!toolbar.iconbar.unfocused.font:   -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
!toolbar.workspace.font:      -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

window.font:         -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-utf-8
menu.frame.font:      -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-utf-8
menu.title.font:      -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-utf-8
toolbar.clock.font:      -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-utf-8
toolbar.iconbar.focused.font:   -*-terminus-bold-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-utf-8
toolbar.iconbar.unfocused.font:   -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-utf-8
toolbar.workspace.font:      -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-utf-8


Whatever I read in the net is either for Mandriva, or using ~.Xressources (no exiosting here).

So anyone here who explicitly has setup utf-8 for fluxbox? How?


BTW. How can I see whether the font terminus-medium is able to display ♂ and ♀ ?
Ok, you can't code, but you still might be able to write a bug report for Debian's sake