diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 6e86361..9866b4c 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 /README.txt -text
 /TODO -text
 /TODO.txt -text
+contrib/ABOUT -text
+contrib/mandriva-locale.patch -text
 docs/devel/example_closure.py -text
 docs/devel/example_pubsub.py -text
 docs/devel/example_singleton.py -text
diff --git a/contrib/ABOUT b/contrib/ABOUT
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1aa6e21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/ABOUT
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# date:2010-04-01 owner:pcpa type:i18n
+Patch01:    mandriva-locale.patch
diff --git a/contrib/mandriva-locale.patch b/contrib/mandriva-locale.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..713cae0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/mandriva-locale.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+diff -p -up invesalius3/invesalius/i18n.py.orig invesalius3/invesalius/i18n.py
+--- invesalius3/invesalius/i18n.py.orig	2010-04-01 15:55:04.292973825 -0300
++++ invesalius3/invesalius/i18n.py	2010-04-01 15:56:13.863615536 -0300
+@@ -45,8 +45,10 @@ def GetLocaleOS():
+         if sys.platform == 'darwin':
+             locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
+             return locale.getlocale()[0]
+-
+-        return locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]
++        lc = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]
++        if lc:
++            return lc
++        return 'en'
+ 
+ def InstallLanguage(language):
+     language_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join('..','locale'))
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