# \[Win Exp\] srart crash on Russian locale

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/win-exp-srart-crash-on-russian-locale/4366>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [December 3, 2013, 6:58am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/win-exp-srart-crash-on-russian-locale/4366 "2013-12-03T06:58:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Savidiy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Savidiy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Savidiy)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 6:58am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/win-exp-srart-crash-on-russian-locale/4366/1 "2013-12-03T06:58:00Z")

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The experiment says that fails in init.cpp:  
Russian Windows 7 Tiles and Curses

`// load names depending on current locale
void init_names()
{
    std::locale loc(""); <<< this command
...
`

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**Author:** ![Savidiy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Savidiy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Savidiy)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/win-exp-srart-crash-on-russian-locale/4366/2 "2013-12-04T05:31:06Z")

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Ohoho! When there was a problem with thousands separator in json, I created a local variable LC\_NUMERIC, even for the 0.8 version. Deleted it and failed stopped.

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**Author:** ![Rorudo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rorudo/32/987_2.png) [@Rorudo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rorudo)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/win-exp-srart-crash-on-russian-locale/4366/3 "2013-12-21T18:24:22Z")

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I have this error too, it just throws runtime\_error on call of loc("") or loc(…) with any other values except of “POSIX” and “C”.  
Here is some investigation of this problem: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4406895/what-stdlocale-names-are-available-on-common-windows-compilers](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4406895/what-stdlocale-names-are-available-on-common-windows-compilers)  
So, is there any way to compile cataclysm on windows systems with MinGW?