allow Unicode characters in command line arguments (refs #5)

* the locale must be initialized very early before g_option_context_parse()
* will allow UTF-8 characters in the test suite

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 5785ef5..c38b1a3 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <signal.h>
+#include <locale.h>
 
 #include <glib.h>
 #include <glib/gprintf.h>
@@ -306,6 +307,13 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 	signal(SIGINT, teco_sigint_handler);
 	signal(SIGTERM, teco_sigint_handler);
 
+	/*
+	 * Important for Unicode handling in curses and glib.
+	 * In particular, in order to accept Unicode characters
+	 * in option strings.
+	 */
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+
 	g_autofree gchar *mung_filename = teco_process_options(&argc, &argv);
 	/*
 	 * All remaining arguments in argv are arguments