> (copying the tranlated item names to a buffer, and zeroing a byte in it
based on the board width
> through an emperically derived linear formula that worked for English
before sending it to the X-server).

If the item name is in UTF-8, doing that blindly can leave you with an
invalid UTF-8 character at the end of the truncated string. In fact you
might end up with no valid characters, just one invalid one.
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