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See thread on https://phabricator.kde.org/D7732, it's not reliable to do this.
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R123 SDDM Configuration Panel (KCM)
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https://phabricator.kde.org/D7716
To: davidedmundson, #plasma
Cc: apol, pl
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> davidedmundson wrote in sddmauthhelper.cpp:228
> in my case I need to change the locale of my helper, not just subprocesses,
> which means I need to set it before I extract args from the user.
Maybe it could still be done by `KAuth::HelperSupport::h
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> apol wrote in sddmauthhelper.cpp:228
> I just realized we have something similar in samba-mounter for the exact same
> reason:
> https://cgit.kde.org/samba-mounter.git/tree/src/helper/sambahelper.cpp#n49
>
> In this case we're forwarding t
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> sddmauthhelper.cpp:228
> +int main(int argc, char **argv) {
> +qputenv("LANG", "C.UTF-8");
> +return KAuth::HelperSupport::helperMain(argc, argv,
> "org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm", new SddmAuthHelper());
I just realized we have something similar
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REVISION SUMMARY
Our helper runs as root and doesn't have the user's environment
(including $LANG). This defaults to one without UTF-8.
Without a
