Joshua Krämer said: > I have figured it out myself: the non-working fonts are available with > utf8 encoding only, but dwm (without Xft patch) does not support utf8.
Sorry, but this doesn't make any sense. Firstly, dwm "supports" utf-8 without any patches. (Although I don't normally use non-ASCII with dwm, I specifically tried now setting WM_NAME to "привет", and it worked just fine.) Next, utf-8 is not font encoding, so it can't influence font rendering. Utf-8 is responsible for set of glyphs that is displayed, but not for fonts. Most likely, your problem is with missing font metadata. See mkfontscale(1) and mkfontdir(1) for details. Alternatively, you may have your font path wrong; see xset(1). But utf-8 has definitely nothing to do with your issue. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff