workaround #9225

src/main.js

@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ if (process.argv.indexOf('--prof-startup') >= 0) {
 	profiler.startProfiling('main', true);
 }
 
+// Workaround for https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/9225. Chrome has an issue where
+// in certain locales (e.g. PL), image metrics are wrongly computed. We explicitly set the
+// LC_NUMERIC to prevent this from happening (selects the numeric formatting category of the
+// C locale, http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/locale/LC_categories).
+process.env.LC_NUMERIC = 'C';
+
 // Perf measurements
 global.perfStartTime = Date.now();