Re: Unicode characters in window title

[Adam Fedor]

On 2005-12-09 11:03:06 -0700 Pablo Di Noto <pdinoto@conectividad.com.ar> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> I am doing setTitle: on a window with a string containing unicode 
>> characters (ä,ö,ü). I only see the title up to the non-ascii character, the 
>> rest is truncated. Should this work or does GNUstep not support unicode 
>> strings in window titles yet? I encounter this problem on Solaris 10 with 
>> Window Maker 0.9.
> 
> I reported something very similar as a Gorm bug on savanah (See 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=15029 )
> 

Currently, window titles get converted to ascii (lossyCString) before being 
set. WM can certainly handle unicode now (it couldn't back in the day when I 
wrote that). See

back/Source/x11/XGWindowServer.m(-titlewindow::)

Should be easy enough to fix, if some one wants to do it ;-)