[xmonad] XMoBar Question

[Don Stewart]

dominik:
> Hy,
> I thought about using some unicode-charaters instead of the images, but
> there is a problem: XMoBar doesnt support Unicode. Even the german
> umlauts written in UTF-8 appear wrong in the bar.
> Is this a haskelllimitation and how hard is it to change this?

It should be easy to support uft8 (just use the utf8-string IO package).
We have utf8-friendly code in XMonadContrib, so I imagine it 
should be easy to add to xmobar if its missing.