From aaddc52da44822ba5d7ceb571c16f4b801612fd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jaseg <code@jaseg.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:54:32 +0200
Subject: Set LC_NUMERIC to C to avoid segfaults on some platforms

---
 mpv.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'mpv.py')

diff --git a/mpv.py b/mpv.py
index 6448207..aae2717 100644
--- a/mpv.py
+++ b/mpv.py
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ if os.name == 'nt':
     backend = CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library('mpv-1.dll'))
     fs_enc = 'utf-8'
 else:
+    import locale
+    lc, enc = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC)
+    # libmpv requires LC_NUMERIC to be set to "C". Since messing with global variables everyone else relies upon is
+    # still better than segfaulting, we are setting LC_NUMERIC to "C".
+    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, 'C')
+
     backend = CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library('mpv'))
     fs_enc = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
 
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