From 16139e4fa7318e6fde742b7c93ba169adb424ee5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilkka Halila <ilkka@hali.la>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:04:48 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Added a platform specific pre_init() method. Allows for a
 setlocale call on Linux so that unicode output works correctly.

---
 src/lib.rs         | 1 +
 src/unix/mod.rs    | 6 +++++-
 src/windows/mod.rs | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 18a86e10..92e6a895 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -433,6 +433,7 @@ pub fn has_colors() -> bool {
 ///
 /// Returns a Window struct that is used to access Window specific functions.
 pub fn initscr() -> Window {
+    platform_specific::pre_init();
     let window_pointer = unsafe { curses::initscr() };
     Window { _window: window_pointer }
 }
diff --git a/src/unix/mod.rs b/src/unix/mod.rs
index 7dcb7a24..cf29ae58 100644
--- a/src/unix/mod.rs
+++ b/src/unix/mod.rs
@@ -2,11 +2,15 @@
 pub mod constants;
 use self::constants::*;
 
-use ncurses::{box_, getmouse};
+use ncurses::{box_, getmouse, LcCategory, setlocale};
 use ncurses::ll::{chtype, MEVENT, NCURSES_ATTR_T, WINDOW, wattron, wattroff, wattrset, ungetch};
 use libc::c_int;
 use input::Input;
 
+pub fn pre_init() {
+    setlocale(LcCategory::all, "");
+}
+
 pub fn _attron(w: WINDOW, attributes: chtype) -> i32 {
     unsafe { wattron(w, attributes as NCURSES_ATTR_T) }
 }
diff --git a/src/windows/mod.rs b/src/windows/mod.rs
index 5705d974..2b5b7c0c 100644
--- a/src/windows/mod.rs
+++ b/src/windows/mod.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ use self::constants::*;
 
 use input::Input;
 
+pub fn pre_init() {
+    // No need to do anything here
+}
+
 pub fn _attron(w: *mut WINDOW, attributes: chtype) -> i32 {
     unsafe { wattron(w, attributes) }
 }