diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index c409d0a..f0f0c2f 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	int errflag;		/* C error processing? */
 	bname_t bname ;	/* buffer name of file to read */
 
-	setlocale( LC_CTYPE, "") ;	/* wide character support (UTF-32) */
+	setlocale( LC_CTYPE, "en_GB.UTF-8") ; /* wide character support (UTF-32) */
 
 #if	PKCODE & BSD
 	sleep(1); /* Time for window manager. */
diff --git a/utf8.c b/utf8.c
index c7dc148..9448356 100644
--- a/utf8.c
+++ b/utf8.c
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ unsigned utf8_width( unicode_t c) {
 	assert( sizeof( wchar_t) == 2) ;	/* wcwidth only handles UTF-16 */
 	return (c < 0x10000) ? (unsigned) wcwidth( (wchar_t) c) : 2 ;
 #elif BSD
-	assert( sizeof( wchar_t) == 4) ;	/* wcwidth should handle UTF-32 */
-	return 1 ;
+//	assert( sizeof( wchar_t) == 4) ;	/* wcwidth should handle UTF-32 */
+	int ret = wcwidth( (wchar_t) c) ;
+	return (ret < 0) ? 1 : (unsigned) ret ;
 #else
 	return (unsigned) wcwidth( (wchar_t) c) ;
 #endif