[glom/glom-1-20] Command-line utilities: Initialize gettext and the locale.

[Murray Cumming <murrayc src gnome org>]

commit a75477422f0b045537caf94bcd44a8909e00889e
Author: Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>
Date:   Mon Jan 9 11:23:12 2012 +0100

    Command-line utilities: Initialize gettext and the locale.
    
    	* glom/glom_create_from_example.cc:
    	* glom/glom_test_connection.cc: This should make the translations be used.
    
    Conflicts:
    
    	ChangeLog
    	glom/glom_export_po.cc
    	glom/glom_export_po_all.cc

 ChangeLog                        |    7 +++++++
 glom/glom_create_from_example.cc |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 glom/glom_test_connection.cc     |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3fb8dd7..10746dd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2012-01-09  Murray Cumming  <murrayc murrayc com>
+
+	Command-line utilities: Initialize gettext and the locale.
+
+	* glom/glom_create_from_example.cc:
+	* glom/glom_test_connection.cc: This should make the translations be used.
+
 2012-01-07  Murray Cumming  <murrayc murrayc com>
 
 	test_document_load: Fix a typo.
diff --git a/glom/glom_create_from_example.cc b/glom/glom_create_from_example.cc
index b74af81..cc69008 100644
--- a/glom/glom_create_from_example.cc
+++ b/glom/glom_create_from_example.cc
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <glibmm/convert.h>
 #include <glibmm/miscutils.h>
 #include <iostream>
+#include <stdexcept>
 
 #include <glibmm/i18n.h>
 
@@ -200,6 +201,28 @@ static void cleanup()
 
 int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 {
+  bindtextdomain(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, GLOM_LOCALEDIR);
+  bind_textdomain_codeset(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
+  textdomain(GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
+
+  // Set the locale for any streams to the user's current locale,
+  // We should not rely on the default locale of
+  // any streams (we should always do an explicit imbue()),
+  // but this is maybe a good default in case we forget.
+  try
+  {
+    std::locale::global(std::locale(""));
+  }
+  catch(const std::runtime_error& ex)
+  {
+    //This has been known to throw an exception at least once:
+    //https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619445
+    //This should tell us what the problem is:
+    std::cerr << G_STRFUNC << ": exception from std::locale::global(std::locale(\"\")): " << ex.what() << std::endl;
+    std::cerr << "  This can happen if the locale is not properly installed or configured." << std::endl;
+  }
+
+  
   Glom::libglom_init();
   
   Glib::OptionContext context;
diff --git a/glom/glom_test_connection.cc b/glom/glom_test_connection.cc
index 1603427..dadd725 100644
--- a/glom/glom_test_connection.cc
+++ b/glom/glom_test_connection.cc
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <glibmm/optioncontext.h>
 #include <glibmm/convert.h>
 #include <iostream>
+#include <stdexcept>
 
 #include <glibmm/i18n.h>
 
@@ -93,6 +94,28 @@ static void print_options_hint()
 
 int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 {
+  bindtextdomain(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, GLOM_LOCALEDIR);
+  bind_textdomain_codeset(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
+  textdomain(GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
+
+  // Set the locale for any streams to the user's current locale,
+  // We should not rely on the default locale of
+  // any streams (we should always do an explicit imbue()),
+  // but this is maybe a good default in case we forget.
+  try
+  {
+    std::locale::global(std::locale(""));
+  }
+  catch(const std::runtime_error& ex)
+  {
+    //This has been known to throw an exception at least once:
+    //https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619445
+    //This should tell us what the problem is:
+    std::cerr << G_STRFUNC << ": exception from std::locale::global(std::locale(\"\")): " << ex.what() << std::endl;
+    std::cerr << "  This can happen if the locale is not properly installed or configured." << std::endl;
+  }
+
+
   Glom::libglom_init();
   
   Glib::OptionContext context;