Bug#502784: [gnome-screensaver] does not display user name with correct charset encoding

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 19 octobre 2008 à 16:29 -0200, Andre Felipe Machado a
écrit :
> After upgrading a brazilian portuguese Etch to Lenny, 
> the gnome screensaver does not display the user name
> with special Latin characters anymore.

> --- System information. ---
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel:       Linux 2.6.26-1-686

Please do not use reportbug-ng to report bugs! It doesn’t provide the
necessary information.

Which locale are you using? If the user name is not in UTF8 in
the /etc/passwd file, this is expected. The encoding of this file is
unspecified and as such must be UTF8.

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