From 332b267ae68fd37725d47f2617de3b1cb0c7f78e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Marco Antonio J. Costa" <marco.antonio.costa@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 08:59:23 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] use en_US locale instead of user's, fallback to C if not
 found

most likely every windows install has en_US available, even if in other
languages. if not, bring back the insertcommas function from history, no
biggie
---
 Utils/Text Utils.cpp | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Utils/Text Utils.cpp b/Utils/Text Utils.cpp
index 7ef2bb52..acb9ebb7 100644
--- a/Utils/Text Utils.cpp	
+++ b/Utils/Text Utils.cpp	
@@ -9,7 +9,12 @@ auto FormatMoney(INT32 iNumber) -> std::wstring
 {
     static std::wstringstream wss([] {
         std::wstringstream ss;
-        ss.imbue(std::locale(""));
+        try {
+            ss.imbue(std::locale("en_US.UTF-8"));
+        }
+        catch (const std::exception&) {
+            ss.imbue(std::locale::classic());
+        }
         return ss;
         }());
     wss.str(L"");