From ad2af5123d57553da336bea75502b8ccb80abefb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 12:28:52 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] tell stdout if setlocale(2) fails

---
 gtk2_ardour/main.cc | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/main.cc b/gtk2_ardour/main.cc
index e1d3ec0fe6..9c010eca09 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/main.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/main.cc
@@ -315,7 +315,9 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])
 #if ENABLE_NLS
 	/* initialize C locale to user preference */
 	if (ARDOUR::translations_are_enabled ()) {
-		setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
+		if (!setlocale (LC_ALL, "")) {
+			std::cerr << "localization call failed, " << PROGRAM_NAME << " will not be translated\n";
+		}
 	}
 #endif