From 6dd064207908006e9d7449a2f6e263dc1ddc7c97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan O'Reilly <oreilldf@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:15:34 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Apply lang patch from David Paleino

---
 wicd/misc.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wicd/misc.py b/wicd/misc.py
index 1a53b5c..cc57deb 100644
--- a/wicd/misc.py
+++ b/wicd/misc.py
@@ -353,7 +353,11 @@ def get_gettext():
     if osLanguage:
         langs += osLanguage.split(":")
     try:
-        lc, encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()
+        # This avoids a bug: locale.getdefaultlocale() prefers
+        # LC_CTYPE over LANG/LANGUAGE
+        lc, encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale(envvars=('LC_MESSAGES', 
+                                                        'LC_ALL', 'LANG', 
+                                                        'LANGUAGE'))
     except ValueError, e:
         print str(e)
         print "Default locale unavailable, falling back to en_US"