simpler locale handling

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/window.py b/window.py
index d553633..e6f9700 100644
--- a/window.py
+++ b/window.py
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ import pygtk
 pygtk.require('2.0')
 import gtk
 
-import os
 import locale
 from gettext import gettext as _
 
@@ -112,9 +111,7 @@ class SlideRule():
         self.stators = []
         self.scale = 1
 
-        lang = os.environ['LANG']
-        if lang != '' and lang is not None:
-            locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, lang)
+        locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, '')
         self.decimal_point = locale.localeconv()['decimal_point']
         if self.decimal_point == '' or self.decimal_point is None:
             self.decimal_point = '.'