From dc8576c1a1d883d600631dd26227ffa8e569cb72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zack Cerza <zack@cerza.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:32:38 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap: Support nonstandard locales

Some newer systems use e.g. LANG=C.utf8, which is breaking bootstrap since it expects to see e.g. C.utf-8. Instead of trying to parse the values, simply split on '.' and append 'utf-8'.

Signed-off-by: Zack Cerza <zack@cerza.org>
---
 bootstrap | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 8990d8781..56c451ef1 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -106,9 +106,11 @@ if [ -f "$VENV/pyvenv.cfg" ]; then
     sed -i'' -e 's/\(include-system-site-packages\s*=\s*\)true/\1false/g' $VENV/pyvenv.cfg
 fi
 
-# Attempt to force a UTF-8 locale without being specific to English
-export LANG=${LANG:-C.UTF-8}
-(echo $LANG | grep -qi utf-8) || export LC_ALL=$LANG.UTF-8
+# Attempt to force a UTF-8 locale without forcing English
+LANG=${LANG:=C}
+LC_ALL=${LC_ALL:=C}
+export LANG="${LANG/.*/}.utf-8"
+export LC_ALL="${LC_ALL/.*/}.utf-8"
 
 if [ -z "$NO_CLOBBER" ] && \
   [ ! -e "$VENV/bin/pip" -o ! -e "$VENV/bin/$PYTHON" ] || \
-- 
2.47.3