From fc56fdade75610fabf42426cdc8960b9f1ba77a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chocobo1 <Chocobo1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 16:49:40 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Specify a locale if none is set

Sometimes users had not properly configured their system locale and thus
qbt will specify a default locale just in case.

Closes #16127.
Closes #19609.
Closes #19834.
PR #20203.
---
 src/app/main.cpp | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/app/main.cpp b/src/app/main.cpp
index ff79eb258..53455f99b 100644
--- a/src/app/main.cpp
+++ b/src/app/main.cpp
@@ -163,6 +163,14 @@ namespace
         limit.rlim_cur = limit.rlim_max;
         setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &limit);
     }
+
+    void adjustLocale()
+    {
+        // specify the default locale just in case if user has not set any other locale
+        // only `C` locale is available universally without installing locale packages
+        if (qEnvironmentVariableIsEmpty("LANG"))
+            qputenv("LANG", "C.UTF-8");
+    }
 #endif
 }
 
@@ -174,6 +182,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 #endif
 
 #ifdef Q_OS_UNIX
+    adjustLocale();
     adjustFileDescriptorLimit();
 #endif