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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <[email protected]>2019-10-09 14:53:18 +0200
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <[email protected]>2019-10-09 14:53:18 +0200
commitfacb9a1315f97489a20eb0e969fdb14b5128ed2f (patch)
treee3104a7723621f3d13956d1bcbd7d9f4b2db5a27 /src/util
parentMerge #15437: p2p: Remove BIP61 reject messages (diff)
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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.cpp4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/util/system.cpp b/src/util/system.cpp
index 8098cde09..f22256615 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