diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6bf34179..42f1352f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 ### Fixes
 - table not displaying all updates when the "updates filter" is clicked several times
 - installation logs written to the wrong temp directory
+- crashes when Python is not able to retrieve the default locale [#84](https://github.com/vinifmor/bauh/issues/84)
 - Arch / AUR:
     - sorting algorithm was providing wrong results for some cases
     - not caching data about packages with no desktop entry files
diff --git a/bauh/view/util/translation.py b/bauh/view/util/translation.py
index 665e395a..40350c30 100644
--- a/bauh/view/util/translation.py
+++ b/bauh/view/util/translation.py
@@ -49,7 +49,14 @@ def get_locale_keys(key: str = None, locale_dir: str = resource.get_path('locale
     locale_path = None
 
     if key is None:
-        current_locale = locale.getdefaultlocale()
+        try:
+            current_locale = locale.getdefaultlocale()
+
+            if current_locale is None or current_locale[0] is None:
+                current_locale = ('en', 'UTF-8')
+        except:
+            current_locale = ('en', 'UTF-8')
+
     else:
         current_locale = [key.strip().lower()]