Special chars in passwords not working

[c0d3z3r0]

When using special chars like § (in fact the only one I've tested) you cannot unlock the screen anymore

[rschlossarek]

I have the Same problem.. I am a german arch user and youse äöü in my passwd

[ret2fail]

Sorry for reviving this but I found a workaround and wanted to share it, in case someone is looking for sflock unicode or slock unicode in the future.

X11 doesn't handle unicode chars very well so what you can do is add more cases to the switch before the default like the following:

case XK_aacute:
    if(num && !iscntrl((int) buf[0]) && (len + 2 < sizeof passwd)) { 
        memcpy(passwd + len, "á", 2);
        len += 2;
    }
    break;

This results in an obvious attack where you can guess that the char "á" is part of the password, so for good measure try to implement this using all the characters of your language. You can get the codes and aliases for the XK_yoursymbol in keysymdef.h. The location of this file may vary but you can find it using:

find / -name keysymdef.h 2>/dev/null

This worked for me on slock and I am assuming that it works here too, although the number of * that appear when you type your password may vary, haven't checked how this change affects it