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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@protonmail.com> | 2019-10-09 14:53:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@protonmail.com> | 2019-10-09 14:53:18 +0200 |
| commit | facb9a1315f97489a20eb0e969fdb14b5128ed2f (patch) | |
| tree | e3104a7723621f3d13956d1bcbd7d9f4b2db5a27 /src/util | |
| parent | c08bf2b574636023cd9d68cb43b3dada5b0cc737 (diff) | |
init: Change fallback locale to C.UTF-8
Much of our code assumes UTF-8 support, and this is a more realistic
guess for modern systems anyway than the default character set (which
would be ASCII only). So change the assumed fallback locale (if no
locale is defined by the user or OS) to `C.UTF-8`.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/util')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/util/system.cpp | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/util/system.cpp b/src/util/system.cpp index 8098cde093..f22256615f 100644 --- a/src/util/system.cpp +++ b/src/util/system.cpp @@ -1153,12 +1153,12 @@ void SetupEnvironment() } #endif // On most POSIX systems (e.g. Linux, but not BSD) the environment's locale - // may be invalid, in which case the "C" locale is used as fallback. + // may be invalid, in which case the "C.UTF-8" locale is used as fallback. #if !defined(WIN32) && !defined(MAC_OSX) && !defined(__FreeBSD__) && !defined(__OpenBSD__) try { std::locale(""); // Raises a runtime error if current locale is invalid } catch (const std::runtime_error&) { - setenv("LC_ALL", "C", 1); + setenv("LC_ALL", "C.UTF-8", 1); } #elif defined(WIN32) // Set the default input/output charset is utf-8 |