Actionless Loveless

> A solution is to add os.setlocale("C") at the start of the theme file. i think this could cause other side-effects, did you tried smth easier, like: ```console > print((a..b):gsub("%.",...

could you elaborate, please, why you think so?

then it looks all correct mb it's a problem with awesome's textbox() then, which expect a dot despite the locale could you please try with your locale, if textbox allowing...

however i just checked related code in awesomewm - and apparently that part is whole done using Pango's methods: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/blob/master/lib/beautiful/init.lua#L156-L191 you can check it here for further investigation

i made a minimal example, so you could test it: ```console $ luajit LuaJIT 2.1.1713773202 -- Copyright (C) 2005-2023 Mike Pall. https://luajit.org/ JIT: ON SSE3 SSE4.1 fold cse dce fwd...

imho it makes sense to expose it to `beautiful` as it's done for tasklist_font, taglist_font