Fix startup crash when using a locale boost does not like

There are various locale related bugs in various versions of boost,
where exceptions are thrown in boost::filesystem APIs when the
current locale is not to boost's liking. It's not clear what "not
to boost's liking" means in detail, though "en" and "en_US.UTF-8"
are not to its liking.

Fix it by running a test function that's known to throw in such
a case, and resetting LANG and LC_ALL to C if an exception is
thrown. In simplewallet, the locale is queried before that so the
correct translations will still be used.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/blockchain_utilities/blockchain_import.cpp b/src/blockchain_utilities/blockchain_import.cpp
index 88d748411..f8158ff2f 100644
--- a/src/blockchain_utilities/blockchain_import.cpp
+++ b/src/blockchain_utilities/blockchain_import.cpp
@@ -538,6 +538,8 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
   std::string m_config_folder;
   std::string db_arg_str;
 
+  tools::sanitize_locale();
+
   boost::filesystem::path default_data_path {tools::get_default_data_dir()};
   boost::filesystem::path default_testnet_data_path {default_data_path / "testnet"};
   std::string import_file_path;