FVWM: Bitmap Fonts and UTF-8

[Walter Alejandro Iglesias]

Hello all,

I've read other recent post here about the same issue but the
original question is not answered there. Not a big problem but
I'd like to know if it's really posible get bitmap fonts
rendering utf-8 characters.

I use en_US.UTF-8 locale. Using scalable fonts (i.e.
xft:sans-10) all utf-8 characters are showed fine. But I
couldn't get it work with bitmap fonts like:

Style * Font -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

I read the man page and tried some stated there. The output of
PrintInfo:

-------
fvwm info on locale:
locale: en_US.UTF-8, Modifier:
Default Charset: X: ISO8859-1, Iconv: Not defined, Bidi: No
XOM Charsets: ISO8859-1 ISO8859-1 ISO8859-2
Number of loaded font: 1
* Font number 0
fvwm info:
Name: -*-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Cache count: 1
Type: FontSet
Charset: X: ISO8859-1, Iconv: Not defined, Bidi: No
height: 13, ascent: 11, descent: 2
shadow size: 0, shadow offset: 0, shadow direction:0
X info:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-2
---------

shows three fonts not included by me in any config file. I use
just two, the helvetica above and a fixed (both iso10646-1).

Some clue?

Thanks

Walter

[Walter Alejandro Iglesias]

Well I reply myself :)

I'd thought it was a fvwm2 problem because I tried fvwm1, twm, fluxbox
and they rendered the right characters. But today I've upgraded to
Slackware 14 and the problem I had with bitmap fonts and utf-8
despaired. I still ignore the cause (freetype, xorg?).

Thanks Thomas and the rest of fvwm develpers for your work!

Walter