From b9f32ab7aae5f524c4060760e2a8f388fb2d45fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Heifner <heifnerk@objectcomputing.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 18:39:25 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent localize from throwing exceptions #876

(cherry picked from commit 3b45822ed045ee2242fe6e79bf847563007f2157)
---
 programs/eosioc/localize.hpp | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/programs/eosioc/localize.hpp b/programs/eosioc/localize.hpp
index ee730680456..72cd073e813 100644
--- a/programs/eosioc/localize.hpp
+++ b/programs/eosioc/localize.hpp
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ namespace eosio { namespace client { namespace localize {
    #define localized(str, ...) localized_with_variant((str), fc::mutable_variant_object() __VA_ARGS__ )
 
    inline auto localized_with_variant( const char* raw_fmt, const fc::variant_object& args) {
-      return fc::format_string(::gettext(raw_fmt), args);
+      if (raw_fmt != nullptr) {
+         try {
+            return fc::format_string(::gettext(raw_fmt), args);
+         } catch (...) {
+         }
+         return std::string(raw_fmt);
+      }
+      return std::string();
    }
-}}}
\ No newline at end of file
+}}}