Issue 43: Call setlocale at startup http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=43 Comment #3 by m...@jansb.org: While it is true that xmonad itself doesn't use X to draw strings, it uses a lot of other locale dependent functions. It prints logging information, it fetches window names, it uses system functions like executeFile and others, which accept strings which need to be converted to the locale encoding. Currently these functions rely on undefined or implementation dependent behaviour and is unlikely to work unless you use ascii only. Calling setlocale at start-up is necessary but not sufficient to fix these bugs. That said, you can close the bug if you want. I agree that calling setlocale alone is not particularly useful anymore now that xmonad proper does so much more than it used to. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings