From 4c5b7afec592c43d91d4ba0646dcad9cce6976f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jehan <jehan@girinstud.io>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:27:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #13774: languages list is not localized on AppImage.

Seems like our CI runners are configured with POSIX locale. Both C and
POSIX locales are basically overriding any attempt to localize during
the build (setting LANGUAGE doesn't work) and unfortunately we are now
self-localizing the list of languages during build.

So let's add a bogus en_US.UTF-8 locale before setting LANGUAGE. This
should fix the issue. It would probably also fix the same issue for
various third-party packages if distributions' build machines are set
similarly!

(cherry picked from commit 88261f8b4cab65350cd858e9221a91da4c7f86db)
---
 .gitlab-ci.yml        |  3 +++
 tools/gen-languages.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index f314b64065..f20c81af08 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -219,11 +219,14 @@ deps-debian-nonreloc:
             libwmf-dev
             libxmu-dev
             libxpm-dev
+            locales
             mypaint-brushes
             poppler-data
             python3
             python3-gi
             python3-gi-cairo" >> Dockerfile
+    - echo "RUN echo 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' >> /etc/locale.gen" >> Dockerfile
+    - echo "RUN locale-gen" >> Dockerfile
     # Prepare environ
     - echo "FROM $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:build-debian-${DEB_VERSION}-${RUNNER}" > Dockerfile2;
     - echo "RUN printf \"\e[0Ksection_start:\`date +%s\`:environ[collapsed=true]\r\e[0KPreparing build environment\n\"" >> Dockerfile2;
diff --git a/tools/gen-languages.c b/tools/gen-languages.c
index dc0cd8c129..ffe5ddd856 100644
--- a/tools/gen-languages.c
+++ b/tools/gen-languages.c
@@ -278,6 +278,26 @@ gimp_language_store_parser_init (GError **error)
       goto cleanup;
     }
 
+  locale = setlocale (LC_ALL, NULL);
+  if (g_strcmp0 (locale, "C") == 0 || g_strcmp0 (locale, "POSIX") == 0)
+    {
+      /* Note: we do not care about what we set, except not C or POSIX.
+       * It may be any valid locale. This needs to be set so that this
+       * script works even on build systems with C or POSIX locale. In
+       * these 2 cases only, the LANGUAGE is ignored and our whole
+       * self-localizing code below would be basically moot.
+       */
+      g_setenv ("LC_ALL", "en_US.UTF-8", TRUE);
+      if (setlocale (LC_ALL, "") == NULL)
+        {
+          g_printerr ("ERROR: %s: setlocale() failed. "
+                      "The build system needs to be set up for localization. "
+                      "Please install at least \"en_US.UTF-8\" or set a locale other than C or POSIX.\n",
+                      __FILE__);
+          exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
+        }
+    }
+
   /* Generate the localized language names. */
   g_hash_table_iter_init (&lang_iter, l10n_lang_list);
   gimp_bind_text_domain ("iso_639_3", ISOCODES_LOCALEDIR);