Set the locale to the user’s default setting

According to POSIX, a program which has not called setlocale(LC_ALL, '') runs using the portable 'C' locale. Calling setlocale(LC_ALL, '') lets it use the default locale as defined by the LANG variable.
pazz · May 3, 2024 · 7c2e43c · 7c2e43c
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diff --git a/alot/__main__.py b/alot/__main__.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # This file is released under the GNU GPL, version 3 or a later revision.
 # For further details see the COPYING file
 import argparse
+import locale
 import logging
 import os
 import sys
@@ -86,6 +87,9 @@ def main():
     for the user interface main loop to run."""
     options, command = parser()
 
+    # locale
+    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
+
     # logging
     root_logger = logging.getLogger()
     for log_handler in root_logger.handlers: