Comment 14 for bug 2066

I experienced similar problems when running sawfish as my window manager. It seems that changing my locale to "C" fixes the problem. Thus, adding:

LANG="C"

to my .xinitrc allowed sawfish to run just fine. I also changed this in my .bashrc so that other apps such as xdvi, etc. don't run into problems.

So... maybe it's a locale problem?