From 800291c1472256d337375e048c810b7e06f8ba8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 08:01:20 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Call set_locale() at startup

---
 kitty/main.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kitty/main.py b/kitty/main.py
index 5f4c7c959..40d5faafb 100644
--- a/kitty/main.py
+++ b/kitty/main.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # License: GPL v3 Copyright: 2016, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>
 
 import argparse
+import locale
 import os
 import sys
 import tempfile
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ from .layout import all_layouts
 from .shaders import GL_VERSION
 from .utils import safe_print
 
+
 defconf = os.path.join(config_dir, 'kitty.conf')
 
 
@@ -223,6 +225,7 @@ def on_glfw_error(code, msg):
 
 
 def main():
+    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
     if os.environ.pop('KITTY_LAUNCHED_BY_LAUNCH_SERVICES',
                       None) == '1' and getattr(sys, 'frozen', True):
         os.chdir(os.path.expanduser('~'))