From e677e1de24612f54ad3d40396806a76ee9af9155 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gtrivedi <trivedigaurav@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 19:25:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] use environ to change LANG to 'C' while calling shell
 processes

---
 plyer/platforms/linux/battery.py   | 7 +++++++
 plyer/platforms/macosx/battery.py  | 7 +++++++
 plyer/platforms/macosx/uniqueid.py | 7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plyer/platforms/linux/battery.py b/plyer/platforms/linux/battery.py
index 653cfe881..0cdb76353 100644
--- a/plyer/platforms/linux/battery.py
+++ b/plyer/platforms/linux/battery.py
@@ -2,9 +2,14 @@
 from plyer.facades import Battery
 from plyer.utils import whereis_exe
 
+from os import environ
+
 
 class LinuxBattery(Battery):
     def _get_state(self):
+        old_lang = environ.get('LANG')
+        environ['LANG'] = 'C'
+
         status = {"isCharging": None, "percentage": None}
 
         # We are supporting only one battery now
@@ -13,6 +18,8 @@ def _get_state(self):
                 stdout=PIPE)
         output = upower_process.communicate()[0]
 
+        environ['LANG'] = old_lang
+
         if not output:
             return status
 
diff --git a/plyer/platforms/macosx/battery.py b/plyer/platforms/macosx/battery.py
index 0b1431802..fe1c525b5 100644
--- a/plyer/platforms/macosx/battery.py
+++ b/plyer/platforms/macosx/battery.py
@@ -2,15 +2,22 @@
 from plyer.facades import Battery
 from plyer.utils import whereis_exe
 
+from os import environ
+
 
 class OSXBattery(Battery):
     def _get_state(self):
+        old_lang = environ.get('LANG')
+        environ['LANG'] = 'C'
+
         status = {"isCharging": None, "percentage": None}
 
         ioreg_process = Popen(["ioreg", "-rc", "AppleSmartBattery"],
                 stdout=PIPE)
         output = ioreg_process.communicate()[0]
 
+        environ['LANG'] = old_lang
+
         if not output:
             return status
 
diff --git a/plyer/platforms/macosx/uniqueid.py b/plyer/platforms/macosx/uniqueid.py
index 80e9a4daa..51ba169cd 100644
--- a/plyer/platforms/macosx/uniqueid.py
+++ b/plyer/platforms/macosx/uniqueid.py
@@ -2,15 +2,22 @@
 from plyer.facades import UniqueID
 from plyer.utils import whereis_exe
 
+from os import environ
+
 
 class OSXUniqueID(UniqueID):
     def _get_uid(self):
+        old_lang = environ.get('LANG')
+        environ['LANG'] = 'C'
+
         ioreg_process = Popen(["ioreg", "-l"], stdout=PIPE)
         grep_process = Popen(["grep", "IOPlatformSerialNumber"],
             stdin=ioreg_process.stdout, stdout=PIPE)
         ioreg_process.stdout.close()
         output = grep_process.communicate()[0]
 
+        environ['LANG'] = old_lang
+
         if output:
             return output.split()[3][1:-1]
         else: