Tell gettext that we want to have the messages in the UTF-8 encoding, to

avoid the extra conversion that gettext would otherwise perform (from the
message encoding which is UTF-8 to the current locale encoding).

src/main.c

@@ -778,6 +778,7 @@ real_main(int argc, char **argv)
         bindtextdomain("WindowMaker", getenv("NLSPATH"));
     else
         bindtextdomain("WindowMaker", LOCALEDIR);
+    bind_textdomain_codeset("WindowMaker", "UTF-8");
     textdomain("WindowMaker");
 
     if (!XSupportsLocale()) {