From 6ad3dc1e43d367b8e899977d48dfb68e7e6cddde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?V=C3=A1clav=20=C5=A0milauer?= <eu@doxos.eu>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 08:26:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix disabling l10n under Linux

---
 gtk2_ardour/main.cc | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/main.cc b/gtk2_ardour/main.cc
index cd3d9a68dc..8faddc7848 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/main.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/main.cc
@@ -275,6 +275,14 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])
 		if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) {
 			std::cerr << "localization call failed, " << PROGRAM_NAME << " will not be translated\n";
 		}
+	} else {
+		/* Force-disable localization if the user wishes so;
+		   just calling setlocale (...,"C") is not sufficient for this;
+		   it is probably the LANG env var which gets picked up later somewhere.
+		*/
+		setenv ("LC_ALL", "C", 1);
+		setenv ("LC_MESSAGES", "C", 1);
+		setenv ("LANG", "C", 1);
 	}
 #endif