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  1. Bug #671923
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 671923

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Jamie Zawinski (jwz) wrote : Re: [Bug 671923] Re: In XScreensaver unlock screen it is not possible to insert "€" sign

Try playing around with the various locale-related environment variables before launching the xscreensaver daemon.

It *may* be that to make this work it's necessary for xscreensaver to call setlocale(), which it did briefly (possibly only in 5.12) but I turned that off because it screws everything up. See comment in xscreensaver.c:

  /* It turns out that if we do NLS stuff here, people running in Japanese
     locales get font craziness on the password dialog, presumably because
     it is displaying Japanese characters in a non-Japanese font. I don't
     understand how to automatically make all this crap work properly by
     default, so until someone sends me a better patch, just leave it off
     and run the daemon in English. -- jwz, 29-Sep-2010
   */
#undef ENABLE_NLS

#ifdef ENABLE_NLS
  if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, ""))
    fprintf (stderr, "locale not supported by C library\n");

  bindtextdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
  textdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
#endif /* ENABLE_NLS */