From e1854c775e3068fc39fbdf335e472916f18779bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Till Varoquaux <till@okcupid.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 13:53:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] always setlocale scan.ll utf8 code

---
 libpub/scan.ll | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libpub/scan.ll b/libpub/scan.ll
index 2464b0e3..f7ec3fe5 100644
--- a/libpub/scan.ll
+++ b/libpub/scan.ll
@@ -645,11 +645,7 @@ hex_to_char (const char *in)
 str
 unicode_to_utf8 (const char *in)
 {
-  static bool init;
-  if (!init) {
-    setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "en_US.UTF-8");
-    init = true;
-  }
+  setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "en_US.UTF-8");
   str ret;
   char *ep;
   mbstate_t state;
@@ -667,6 +663,9 @@ unicode_to_utf8 (const char *in)
       ret = m;
     }
   }
+  if (!ret) {
+      ret = "";
+  }
   return ret;
 }