--- emelfm2-0.0.9/src/e2_main.c.orig	2004-10-07 01:16:15.378509936 -0400
+++ emelfm2-0.0.9/src/e2_main.c	2004-10-07 01:13:45.373314192 -0400
@@ -272,47 +272,6 @@
 	}
 }
 
-static void check_locale ()
-{
-	printd (DEBUG, "check_locale ()");
-	gchar *locale = gtk_set_locale ();
-	printd (NOTICE, "current locale is '%s'", locale);
-	const gchar *broken =  g_getenv ("G_BROKEN_FILENAMES");
-	if (broken != NULL && g_str_equal (locale, "C"))
-	{
-		printf (_("Your current locale is '%s'.\n"), locale);
-		printf
-		(
-			_("You have set the environment variable G_BROKEN_FILENAMES. GTK+ is\n"
-			"supposed to convert filenames from the system locale to UTF8 encoding.\n"
-			"However, you have not set a system locale. Thus, please adjust your locale.\n")
-		);
-		if (!e2_cl_options.ignore_problems)
-		{
-			printf
-			(
-				_("(Note: There is the command line option -i/--ignore-problems, but use it\n"
-				"at your own risk!)\n")
-			);
-			exit (1);
-		} else
-			printf
-			(
-				_("emelFM2 will ignore locale problems when reading filenames because\n"
-				"--ignore-problems/-i has been set. This might result in segfaults and all\n"
-				"kind of problems. You should really set a system locale with the\n"
-				"LANG environment variable\n.")
-			);
-
-	}
-#ifdef ENABLE_NLS
-	printd (DEBUG, "setting locale dir to '%s'", LOCALE_DIR);
-	bindtextdomain (BINNAME, LOCALE_DIR);
-	textdomain (BINNAME);
-#endif
-
-}
-
 //blind log handler to stop gtk warnings
 static void blind_log_handler () { }
 
@@ -342,7 +301,6 @@
 	gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
 	
 	e2_cl_option_process (argc, argv);
-	check_locale ();
 
 	if (e2_cl_options.surpress_gtk_output)
 		g_log_set_handler ("Gtk", G_LOG_LEVEL_WARNING | G_LOG_FLAG_FATAL