[xmonad] Japanese fonts in an XFT xmobar or dzen panel with dynamiclog

[wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu]

Phew, sorry that was such a mess. And good debugging -- you got  
through some quite tricky stuff there and it looks like you mostly did  
things right!

Quoting Michael Norrish <Michael.Norrish at nicta.com.au>:

>     Building xmonad-contrib-0.9.1...
>     [  1 of 180] Compiling XMonad.Util.Replace (  
> XMonad/Util/Replace.hs, dist/build/XMonad/Util/Replace.o )
>
>     XMonad/Util/Replace.hs:1:0:
>         Warning: Module `Prelude' is deprecated:
>                    You are using the old package `base' version 3.x.
>                    Future GHC versions will not support base version 3.x. You
>                    should update your code to use the new base version 4.x.
>     [  2 of 180] Compiling XMonad.Util.CustomKeys (  
> XMonad/Util/CustomKeys.hs, dist/build/XMonad/Util/CustomKeys.o )
>
>     XMonad/Util/CustomKeys.hs:80:23:
>         Not in scope: data constructor `Reader'
>     cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>     gtk-traymanager-0.1.2 failed during the configure step. The  
> exception was:
>     ExitFailure 1
>     taffybar-0.1.3 depends on xmonad-contrib-0.9.1 which failed to install.
>     xmonad-contrib-0.9.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
>     ExitFailure 1

Okay, getting close... it looks like something strange is going on  
with your mtl. Can you post the output of "ghc-pkg list | grep mtl"?  
(Note that this is different than "ghc-pkg list mtl" -- there are a  
few different packages all with mtl in their name.)

Also, please tell us how you installed xmonad -- did you build it  
yourself from one of the releases on the website, or did you install  
it from your package manager? (If the latter, you might consider  
installing xmonad-contrib from your package manager as well.)

You might want to hop on #xmonad, too, for a more interactive  
debugging experience.

~d