Hello all,

I've been trying to coax my fluxbox into displaying Russian (or anything out of the latin alphabet, for that matter) in the window bars. A remark, in case I chose the wrong name: by window bar I mean that part on top of a window, with either its name or other infos, minimize,maximize, close buttons and so on.

Well, the window manager is reponsible for dealing with window bars. Gnome does a lovely job: try the site ru.wikipedia.org, and you'll see nice cyrillic characters coming up. On the other hand, fluxbox just won't cut it - it plain displays nothing (or leaves the last value).

I've done a huge amount of searches for this, but nothing came up - the only interesting site featured a review of WM that could support Japanese or Russian. A conclusion from the author was that Fluxbox would be able to render Japanese but bot Russian. This site is dated 2003. In my system none of them comes up. Again, you can peek at jp.wikipedia.org to see how your system does.

Fluxbox does render most latin alphabet characters properly (german, portuguese) but again fails in polish, meaning a lot of stuff doesn;t come up on the title bar (is that the correct name?).

I'm absolutely not concerned with how an application renders non-latin characters: especially because aside from some japanese and traditional chinese characters, I've got really nice outputs.

Now, I want to stick with fluxbox, but I'd like to have the international characters (I teach my users to avoid anything not-ascii in filenames or even prog comments, but I want characters properly displayed - 10 german, 2 portuguese and 1 french are satisfied, but I still have 4 russian and 1 polish to care about..).

Fluxbox appears to have i18n support, and Gnome works. Does anyone have hints to give?

Best regards,

Renato (half of the portuguese users of the system)