Special characters in window titles do not render

[bnvk]

I am noticing in both the main AppVM color coded border as well as in the panel bar of the desktop, that special characters like ö í á ð Þ ý from Icelandic as well as more normal special chars like quote " char render instead as underscores __ see attached screenshot

[marmarek]

Take a look at guid configuration, especially allow_utf8_titles.
@rootkovska, maybe we should enable it by default?

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[marmarek]

Take a look at guid configuration, especially allow_utf8_titles.
@rootkovska, maybe we should enable it by default?

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[bnvk]

@marmarek thanks for the suggestion. I edited those config items and restarted my VMs and then my whole machine, but the issue still persists.

I think enabling utf8 tittles by default would be a significant user experience improvement. In general, asking a user to edit a config file in a CLI is something rather advanced subset of users. cc: @rootkovska

[bnvk]

@marmarek thanks for the suggestion. I edited those config items and restarted my VMs and then my whole machine, but the issue still persists.

I think enabling utf8 tittles by default would be a significant user experience improvement. In general, asking a user to edit a config file in a CLI is something rather advanced subset of users. cc: @rootkovska

[rootkovska]

The reason we filter out utf8 from titlebar is for extra security. Given that we currently (3.0) don't support international versions that well anyway, I suggest we leave the default off, and moving this ticker to 3.1 for further considerations.

[rootkovska]

The reason we filter out utf8 from titlebar is for extra security. Given that we currently (3.0) don't support international versions that well anyway, I suggest we leave the default off, and moving this ticker to 3.1 for further considerations.

[mfc]

can someone add a "localization" tag to this issue? and any others that impact non-english-speaking users.

at minimum this should be an option during first installation for the user to select, and let them know what they gain/lose.

[mfc]

can someone add a "localization" tag to this issue? and any others that impact non-english-speaking users.

at minimum this should be an option during first installation for the user to select, and let them know what they gain/lose.

[rootkovska]

We would like to have this as a default setting applied by Firstboot, allowing the (more advanced) user to untick it.

[rootkovska]

We would like to have this as a default setting applied by Firstboot, allowing the (more advanced) user to untick it.

[mfc]

could this in the meantime be a setting in the Qubes VM Manager? I don't know if that would make it faster to implement.

[mfc]

could this in the meantime be a setting in the Qubes VM Manager? I don't know if that would make it faster to implement.