[xmonad] UTF-8 in prompt

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* Владимир Сидоренко <yoyavova at gmail.com> [2009-02-28 20:53:03+0200]
> >> Hi
> >> How do i enable utf-8 in prompt?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> 
> > AFAIK it's enabled by default. I didn't have any unicode related problems with
> > XPromt specifically. Problems may arise when string from xpromt is passed to
> > IO functions e.g. spawn.
> >
> > Could you be more specific about you problem?
> 
> The problem is that i can't use cyrillic in prompt. Neither in entered
> text nor in completions list.
> It's shown like some pseudo graphics and other special characters.

Do you use binary packaged xmonad or compiled it yourself?
It must be built with utf8 enabled.

-- 
Roman I. Cheplyaka (aka Feuerbach @ IRC)
http://ro-che.info/docs/xmonad.hs