From 0f734719e7ac9660b6337ade6e8dfa679cce534f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 19:09:13 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 kitty/main.py | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kitty/main.py b/kitty/main.py
index 6b016da77..0a607956e 100644
--- a/kitty/main.py
+++ b/kitty/main.py
@@ -338,11 +338,11 @@ def set_locale() -> None:
         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
     except Exception:
         log_error('Failed to set locale with LANG:', os.environ.get('LANG'))
-        os.environ.pop('LANG', None)
-        try:
-            locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
-        except Exception:
-            log_error('Failed to set locale with no LANG')
+        if os.environ.pop('LANG', None) is not None:
+            try:
+                locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
+            except Exception:
+                log_error('Failed to set locale with no LANG')
 
 
 def _main() -> None: