XScreensaver, phosphor and german ‘umlaute’

21 November, 2013 / tom / 1 Comment

sometimes it’s just the very little things that bug me a bit.
one had always been that phosphor does not like UTF encoding a lot and shows german “umlaute” just worng!

a little program called recode comes handy here!

this ends up calling phosphor something like that:

/usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor -root -program 'fortune | recode -f utf8..latin1' -scale 3

now, all you gotta do is add this in your configuration dialog of xscreesavers phosphor.

useless….but still :D