From d3da14111c11ca4bad7c9bf802d0771267a2df08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 22:23:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] this enabled UTF8 for some recent versions of python2.

python3 has no problems at all
---
 src/sst.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/sst.py b/src/sst.py
index a3455bf..448b6ea 100644
--- a/src/sst.py
+++ b/src/sst.py
@@ -3063,6 +3063,12 @@ curwnd = None
 
 def iostart():
     global stdscr, rows
+    "for some recent versions of python2, the following enables UTF8"
+    "for the older ones we probably need to set C locale, and the python3"
+    "has no problems at all"
+    if sys.version_info.major < 3:
+	import locale
+	locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
     gettext.bindtextdomain("sst", "/usr/local/share/locale")
     gettext.textdomain("sst")
     if not (game.options & OPTION_CURSES):
-- 
2.31.1