From 725bdcf4586825227df64a719fcaf8238edb9602 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Gill <nathan.j.gill@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:22:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: handle multi-byte unicode characters in password string

- calculate password length in codepoints, not bytes, which produces
    incorrect lengths when multi-byte unicode chars are entered.

closes #48
---
 src/event.rs   | 2 +-
 src/surface.rs | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/event.rs b/src/event.rs
index eecbf86..ef38810 100644
--- a/src/event.rs
+++ b/src/event.rs
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ impl NLockState {
                 self.surfaces[i].render(
                     &self.config,
                     auth_state,
-                    self.password.len(),
+                    self.password.chars().count(),
                     self.background_image.as_ref(),
                     shm,
                     qh,
diff --git a/src/surface.rs b/src/surface.rs
index 2e89a4a..9cc5001 100644
--- a/src/surface.rs
+++ b/src/surface.rs
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ impl Dispatch<ext_session_lock_surface_v1::ExtSessionLockSurfaceV1, usize> for N
             surface.render(
                 &state.config,
                 auth_state,
-                state.password.len(),
+                state.password.chars().count(),
                 state.background_image.as_ref(),
                 shm,
                 qh,