Reading all that makes me wonder - wouldn't the best solution simply be to dike out setlocale()? Maybe LD_PRELOAD or some linker fiddle (StackOverflow tells me

Reading all that makes me wonder - wouldn't the best solution simply be to dike out setlocale()? Maybe LD_PRELOAD or some linker fiddle (StackOverflow tells me this is possible). A lot of issues seem to be caused by random third party linked code calling setlocale() and breaking stuff.