unsupported locale error is skipped and

we use en for wiki search (better to search
in english wikipedia than not having gajim at
all)

src/common/connection_handlers.py

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import base64
 import sha
 import socket
 import sys
+import locale
 
 from calendar import timegm
 
@@ -1232,7 +1233,9 @@ class ConnectionHandlers(ConnectionVcard, ConnectionBytestream, ConnectionDisco)
 		mtype = msg.getType()
 		subject = msg.getSubject() # if not there, it's None
 		tim = msg.getTimestamp()
+		locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'C')
 		tim = time.strptime(tim, '%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S')
+		locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, '')
 		tim = time.localtime(timegm(tim))
 		frm = helpers.get_full_jid_from_iq(msg)
 		jid = helpers.get_jid_from_iq(msg)
@@ -1361,7 +1364,9 @@ class ConnectionHandlers(ConnectionVcard, ConnectionBytestream, ConnectionDisco)
 			if x.getNamespace() == common.xmpp.NS_DELAY:
 				# JEP-0091
 				tim = prs.getTimestamp()
+				locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, 'C')
 				tim = time.strptime(tim, '%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S')
+				locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, '')
 				timestamp = time.localtime(timegm(tim))
 			if x.getNamespace() == 'http://delx.cjb.net/protocol/roster-subsync':
 				# see http://trac.gajim.org/ticket/326

src/common/gajim.py

@@ -71,8 +71,11 @@ try:
 	MY_EMOTS_PATH = MY_EMOTS_PATH.decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
 except:
 	pass
-
-LANG = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0] # en_US, fr_FR, el_GR etc..
+try:
+	LANG = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0] # en_US, fr_FR, el_GR etc..
+except (ValueError, locale.Error):
+	# unknown locale, use en is better than fail
+	LANG = None
 if LANG is None:
 	LANG = 'en'
 else: