Bug 68810 – Problem with UTF-8 and french accent in windowmaker 0.90.0

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bapt 2004-10-25 04:31:18 UTC]

windowmaker doesn't render any accent in the menu :
in the menu execute is D

[Comment 1 Bapt 2004-10-25 04:31:18 UTC]

windowmaker doesn't render any accent in the menu :
in the menu execute is Démarrer in french, and we get : D
each time there is an accent it's the same for at least éèàù

I think it's an UTF-8 problem

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge windowmaker-0.90.0
2. set your locale to french for example
3. run windowmaker

Actual Results:  
No accent are rendered 

Expected Results:  
Having the accent

[Comment 2 Kate Ward 2004-10-26 02:20:18 UTC]

I placed UTF-8 German characters (eg. 

[Comment 3 Kate Ward 2004-10-26 02:20:18 UTC]

I placed UTF-8 German characters (eg. öäü) in my menus, and got them to work fine with 0.90.0.  I then tested with 0.80.0 on another machine, and they did not work (as I expected).  Could this possibly be a problem with the font used for your theme?

[Comment 4 Christian Strauf 2004-12-01 04:46:12 UTC]

I have the same problem with German umlauts (

[Comment 5 Christian Strauf 2004-12-01 04:46:12 UTC]

I have the same problem with German umlauts (äüöß) in the menu. However, I use LANG="de_DE@euro" in my .xession. I can enter menu names that contain umlauts in WPrefs but the specials chars don't show. Additionally, after upgrading from 0.80.0 to 0.91.0-r1, all menu items that contained umlauts were garbled:

"Ausführen"
became
"Ausf"

[Comment 6 Armando Di Cianno (RETIRED) 2005-06-23 14:33:32 UTC]

So, I'm finally getting to this bug, and I can display 1 "special" character,
but more than that seems to break the menus, as has been described here.

I'll see if I can get answers from upstream about this.

[Comment 7 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2006-01-09 16:12:23 UTC]

same problem with the latest version ? Please reopen if you still have the same issue.