fix deleting a frozen multi-line wxTextCtrl, see #13543

[wxWidgets.git] / src / common / init.cpp

diff --git a/src/common/init.cpp b/src/common/init.cpp
index 8b11d75ce1413551306f26b45c6af2289fedd08a..7b836cd88e5c410fee45ae9cea7f88b8e2e45b08 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/init.cpp
+++ b/src/common/init.cpp
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@
     #endif // wxCrtSetDbgFlag
 #endif // __WINDOWS__
 
+#if wxUSE_UNICODE && defined(__WXOSX__)
+    #include <locale.h>
+#endif
+
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // private classes
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -218,6 +222,18 @@ static void FreeConvertedArgs()
 // initialization which is always done (not customizable) before wxApp creation
 static bool DoCommonPreInit()
 {
+#if wxUSE_UNICODE && defined(__WXOSX__)
+    // In OS X and iOS, wchar_t CRT functions convert to char* and fail under
+    // some locales. The safest fix is to set LC_CTYPE to UTF-8 to ensure that
+    // they can handle any input.
+    //
+    // Note that this must be done for any app, Cocoa or console, whether or
+    // not it uses wxLocale.
+    //
+    // See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11713745/why-does-the-printf-family-of-functions-care-about-locale
+    setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "UTF-8");
+#endif // wxUSE_UNICODE && defined(__WXOSX__)
+
 #if wxUSE_LOG
     // Reset logging in case we were cleaned up and are being reinitialized.
     wxLog::DoCreateOnDemand();