Re: [dev] [dmenu] support for input methods

From: �� � <zrui16_AT_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 16:01:07 +0000

Regarding the wrong cursor position problem: Changing the default monotab font (in config.h) to a Chinese font is a good workaround for now.

The problem is that drw.c implements a font fallback mechanism on its own, but _only when_ drawing characters. When calculating the width of a string, it always use the first font (drw->fonts[0]) and no fallback mechanism is active.

Some pull request suggestions:

1. You can implement another font fallback mechanism for calculating the width of a UTF-8 string. This would result in a bigger drw_font_getexts_width() function.
2. You can combine the drawing of the string and of the cursor. That is, drw_text() optionally draws the cursor after a specified position (in characters). Because drw_text() keeps track of the position of the character that is just drawn, it would put the cursor at the correct position.

Hope it helps,
Rui
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On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:31:21PM +0000, �� � wrote:
>Can you make it clear about whether you can _type_ anything with fcitx with the dropbox version of dmenu?

I can type something with fcitx but not chinese characters.

>If yes, All right. I guess it was a bad idea that I did not try the dropbox version before making a pull request. :-(
>Otherwise, please try out my pull request.

Where's your pull request?

>Anyway, now I can at most type something in dmenu. Wrong cursor position is just a minor problem, since I hardly need any editing for what I type in. I guess it has something to do with calculating the width of a text, and it should be easy to fix.

It should have something to do with wcwidth, I am not very sure, you can
take a look in st's code.

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