From f3fe12becba01f22e49eafe6c9e772487f671613 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:39:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 	* src/scm/main.scm -- move (setlocale ...) earlier in
 the startup. 	  it needs to run before app-utils is loaded (because
 gnc_localeconv() 	  caches the first run -- so if that happens before
 setlocale, you're 	  stuck!)

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@7262 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
---
 ChangeLog        | 6 ++++++
 src/scm/main.scm | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e53bbb4e5c..f6a0f6360e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-10-03  Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>
+	* src/scm/main.scm -- move (setlocale ...) earlier in the startup.
+	  it needs to run before app-utils is loaded (because gnc_localeconv()
+	  caches the first run -- so if that happens before setlocale, you're
+	  stuck!)
+
 2002-10-02  Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>
 	* configure.in: check for ltdl.h
 
diff --git a/src/scm/main.scm b/src/scm/main.scm
index 6c1235f113..1415de5e64 100644
--- a/src/scm/main.scm
+++ b/src/scm/main.scm
@@ -350,6 +350,9 @@ string and 'directories' must be a list of strings."
   (gnc:debug "starting up (1).")
   (gnc:setup-debugging)
 
+  ;; before doing ANYTHING, set the locale!
+  (setlocale LC_ALL "")
+
   ;; initialize the gnucash module system 
   (gnc:module-system-init)
   
@@ -362,7 +365,6 @@ string and 'directories' must be a list of strings."
     
     (gnc:module-load "gnucash/app-utils" 0)
     (gnc:setup-gettext)
-    (setlocale LC_ALL "")
     ;; Now we can load a bunch of files.
     (load-from-path "path.scm")
     (load-from-path "command-line.scm") ;; depends on app-utils (N_, etc.)...