From ba0fa0d9bca19c2bab34459249e4a79426683bf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dexX7 <dexx@bitwatch.co>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:07:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Initialization: set fallback locale as environment
 variable

The scope of `std::locale::global` appears to be smaller than `setenv("LC_ALL", ...)` and insufficient to fix messed up locale settings for the whole application.
---
 src/util.cpp | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util.cpp b/src/util.cpp
index 4192e44ae..5fef3a40d 100644
--- a/src/util.cpp
+++ b/src/util.cpp
@@ -723,18 +723,19 @@ void RenameThread(const char* name)
 
 void SetupEnvironment()
 {
+    std::locale loc("C");
     // On most POSIX systems (e.g. Linux, but not BSD) the environment's locale
     // may be invalid, in which case the "C" locale is used as fallback.
 #if !defined(WIN32) && !defined(MAC_OSX) && !defined(__FreeBSD__) && !defined(__OpenBSD__)
     try {
-        std::locale(""); // Raises a runtime error if current locale is invalid
+        loc = std::locale(""); // Raises a runtime error if current locale is invalid
     } catch (const std::runtime_error&) {
-        std::locale::global(std::locale("C"));
+        setenv("LC_ALL", "C", 1);
     }
 #endif
     // The path locale is lazy initialized and to avoid deinitialization errors 
     // in multithreading environments, it is set explicitly by the main thread.
-    boost::filesystem::path::imbue(std::locale());    
+    boost::filesystem::path::imbue(loc);
 }
 
 void SetThreadPriority(int nPriority)

From fc3979ac695f75f5a5cf2c97322eaebb9decddf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dexX7 <dexx@bitwatch.co>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:09:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Initialization: setup environment before starting tests

The environment is prepared by the main thread to guard against invalid locale settings and to prevent deinitialization issues of Boost path, which can result in app crashes.
---
 src/test/test_bitcoin.cpp | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/test/test_bitcoin.cpp b/src/test/test_bitcoin.cpp
index 7d5207b11..5358e1866 100644
--- a/src/test/test_bitcoin.cpp
+++ b/src/test/test_bitcoin.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ extern void noui_connect();
 
 BasicTestingSetup::BasicTestingSetup()
 {
+        SetupEnvironment();
         fPrintToDebugLog = false; // don't want to write to debug.log file
         SelectParams(CBaseChainParams::MAIN);
 }

From 3a3ecc02e55ba955ee535d645412ebb66295939a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dexX7 <dexx@bitwatch.co>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:33:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Initialization: setup environment before starting QT
 tests

The environment is prepared by the main thread to guard against invalid locale settings.
---
 src/qt/test/test_main.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/qt/test/test_main.cpp b/src/qt/test/test_main.cpp
index da5f07439..bb768f132 100644
--- a/src/qt/test/test_main.cpp
+++ b/src/qt/test/test_main.cpp
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include "config/bitcoin-config.h"
 #endif
 
+#include "util.h"
 #include "uritests.h"
 
 #ifdef ENABLE_WALLET
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN(qkrcodecs)
 // This is all you need to run all the tests
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
+    SetupEnvironment();
     bool fInvalid = false;
 
     // Don't remove this, it's needed to access