From 93ffece46502e46bf2a22c93ceccc87c0487515f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:10:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] hotfix C++ locale (OSX, windows)

---
 gtk2_ardour/main.cc | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/main.cc b/gtk2_ardour/main.cc
index 33e30c2c15..a123631a54 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/main.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/main.cc
@@ -298,7 +298,11 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])
 #ifdef ENABLE_NLS
 	/* initialize C and C++ locales to user preference */
 	setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
-	std::locale::global (std::locale (setlocale (LC_ALL, 0)));
+	try {
+		std::locale::global (std::locale (setlocale (LC_ALL, 0)));
+	} catch (...) {
+		std::cerr << "Cannot set C++ locale\n";
+	}
 #endif
 
 	console_madness_begin();