Solving locale problems

songbook.py

@@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ def argument_parser(args):
 
 def main():
     # set script locale to match user's
+    try:
         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
+    except locale.Error as error:
+        # Locale is not installed on user's system, or wrongly configured.
+        sys.stderr.write("Locale error: {}\n".format(error.message))
 
     options = argument_parser(sys.argv[1:])
 

songbook/plastex.py

@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ def parsetex(filename):
     doc = SongParser.parse(filename)
 
     # /* BEGIN plasTeX patch
+    if oldlocale[0] and oldlocale[1]:
         locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, "%s.%s" % oldlocale)
     # plasTeX patch END */