On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Delta wrote: > > I usually use ISO-8859-15 character encoding on my system. I have tried > > with UTF-8 and also there was no problem, so let me try to delimit the > > problem: > > Can you see your selection OK in the ~/.dclip_cache file after the M+C+c? > > No. it became ????? > > > Do you see weird characters only on shift+ins? > > all: dclip_cache, dmenu bar, shift+ins > > > Does this garbage appear anywhere you paste the clipboard content? > > vim, screen, xterm > > 1. dclip use latin-1 encoding, even I converted it to utf8, the > problem persisted. > 2. my signature contains chinese characters in utf8, can use see them > or just some garbage (??????). You may try it as sample text. > 3. the dmenu should use fonts that display unicode, I put this into > config.h > > static const char font[] = > "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-ukai-*-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*"; >
I also had problems with Chinese characters, even with utf-8 encoding. I suppose I need to install some font. I only have been able to manage this characters correctly inside claws-mail (with its internal clipboard). Now I don't have the time needed to make more tests, I'm sorry. I will let you know when I know something more about. Regards, Delta
