weird localization problem - app loses locale setting

["Cristóvão B. B. Dalla Costa" <cbraga freedows com>]

Hello

What could cause an application to lose its locale setting? I'm trying 
to debug a problem (in Gaim) in which it loses its locale setting when a 
conversation window is open and after that everything appears in 
English. It only happens in a few computers, and in those computers it 
happens everytime. I attached a screenshot which shows the exact point 
it occurs: notice that from the window up to the tooltip text is in 
Portuguese, and the "warn" button is in English. After this, every other 
screen will show up completely in English.

Still, I've looked through the code and couldn't find anything 
suspicious. It only has references to setlocale, bindtextdomain, etc at 
the beginning. Has anybody encountered such a problem before? What could 
possibly cause this behaviour?

Thanks in advance,
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Cristóvão Dalla Costa
cbraga freedows com