From 025950c05eb8f9b4ea4e54e644f060c251ec73d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Surda <surda@economicsofbitcoin.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 11:54:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix locale init

- date/time wasn't localised correctly on startup
---
 src/bitmessageqt/__init__.py | 18 +++++++++---------
 src/l10n.py                  |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/bitmessageqt/__init__.py b/src/bitmessageqt/__init__.py
index a274212b..a4e101c0 100644
--- a/src/bitmessageqt/__init__.py
+++ b/src/bitmessageqt/__init__.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ from about import *
 from help import *
 from iconglossary import *
 from connect import *
-import locale as pythonlocale
+import locale
 import sys
 from time import strftime, localtime, gmtime
 import time
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def _translate(context, text, disambiguation = None, encoding = None, number = N
     else:
         return QtGui.QApplication.translate(context, text, None, QtCore.QCoreApplication.CodecForTr, number)
 
-def change_translation(locale):
+def change_translation(newlocale):
     global qmytranslator, qsystranslator
     try:
         if not qmytranslator.isEmpty():
@@ -97,29 +97,29 @@ def change_translation(locale):
         pass
 
     qmytranslator = QtCore.QTranslator()
-    translationpath = os.path.join (shared.codePath(), 'translations', 'bitmessage_' + locale)
+    translationpath = os.path.join (shared.codePath(), 'translations', 'bitmessage_' + newlocale)
     qmytranslator.load(translationpath)
     QtGui.QApplication.installTranslator(qmytranslator)
 
     qsystranslator = QtCore.QTranslator()
     if shared.frozen:
-        translationpath = os.path.join (shared.codePath(), 'translations', 'qt_' + locale)
+        translationpath = os.path.join (shared.codePath(), 'translations', 'qt_' + newlocale)
     else:
-        translationpath = os.path.join (str(QtCore.QLibraryInfo.location(QtCore.QLibraryInfo.TranslationsPath)), 'qt_' + locale)
+        translationpath = os.path.join (str(QtCore.QLibraryInfo.location(QtCore.QLibraryInfo.TranslationsPath)), 'qt_' + newlocale)
     qsystranslator.load(translationpath)
     QtGui.QApplication.installTranslator(qsystranslator)
 
-    lang = pythonlocale.normalize(l10n.getTranslationLanguage())
+    lang = locale.normalize(l10n.getTranslationLanguage())
     langs = [lang.split(".")[0] + "." + l10n.encoding, lang.split(".")[0] + "." + 'UTF-8', lang]
     if 'win32' in sys.platform or 'win64' in sys.platform:
         langs = [l10n.getWindowsLocale(lang)]
     for lang in langs:
         try:
-            pythonlocale.setlocale(pythonlocale.LC_ALL, lang)
+            l10n.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, lang)
             if 'win32' not in sys.platform and 'win64' not in sys.platform:
-                l10n.encoding = pythonlocale.nl_langinfo(pythonlocale.CODESET)
+                l10n.encoding = locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET)
             else:
-                l10n.encoding = pythonlocale.getlocale()[1]
+                l10n.encoding = locale.getlocale()[1]
             logger.info("Successfully set locale to %s", lang)
             break
         except:
diff --git a/src/l10n.py b/src/l10n.py
index a32abb84..0300085a 100644
--- a/src/l10n.py
+++ b/src/l10n.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 
 import logging
+import os
 import time
 
 import shared
@@ -78,6 +79,11 @@ if time_format != DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT:
         time_format = DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT
         encoding = DEFAULT_ENCODING
 
+def setlocale(category, newlocale):
+    locale.setlocale(category, newlocale)
+    # it looks like some stuff isn't initialised yet when this is called the
+    # first time and its init gets the locale settings from the environment
+    os.environ["LC_ALL"] = newlocale
 
 def formatTimestamp(timestamp = None, as_unicode = True):
     #For some reason some timestamps are strings so we need to sanitize.