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| -rw-r--r-- | ui/gtk.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1950,7 +1950,8 @@ void gtk_display_init(DisplayState *ds, bool full_screen, bool grab_on_hover) s->free_scale = FALSE; - setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); + /* LC_MESSAGES only. See early_gtk_display_init() for details */ + setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, ""); bindtextdomain("qemu", CONFIG_QEMU_LOCALEDIR); textdomain("qemu"); @@ -2019,6 +2020,24 @@ void gtk_display_init(DisplayState *ds, bool full_screen, bool grab_on_hover) void early_gtk_display_init(int opengl) { + /* The QEMU code relies on the assumption that it's always run in + * the C locale. Therefore it is not prepared to deal with + * operations that produce different results depending on the + * locale, such as printf's formatting of decimal numbers, and + * possibly others. + * + * Since GTK+ calls setlocale() by default -importing the locale + * settings from the environment- we must prevent it from doing so + * using gtk_disable_setlocale(). + * + * QEMU's GTK+ UI, however, _does_ have translations for some of + * the menu items. As a trade-off between a functionally correct + * QEMU and a fully internationalized UI we support importing + * LC_MESSAGES from the environment (see the setlocale() call + * earlier in this file). This allows us to display translated + * messages leaving everything else untouched. + */ + gtk_disable_setlocale(); gtkinit = gtk_init_check(NULL, NULL); if (!gtkinit) { /* don't exit yet, that'll break -help */ |