Bug#276089: gksu: doesn't understand non-ascii password

[Gustavo Noronha Silva]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 01:25:08 +0200
Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de> wrote:

> Hi,

Hey!

> Hmmm. I'm still a beginner, but isn't it the purpose of locales to
> reflect user specific settings? E.g. I don't use german locales for all
> my accounts, but all machines do have a german keyboard. Testing the
> locale would thus lead to trouble, right?
>=20
> Isn't this problem subject to some nice standard, or is there at least
> some well established practice to handle it? What about unicode?

Problem is gtk2 always uses unicode for everything, so your password is
being sent to su/sudo unicode-encoded. Test this by using the -p swith for
gksu.

Thanks,

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