Re: gnome 1.2, localisation and C++ streams

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:53:08PM +0200, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> > I didn't see anything in the glibc docs to indicate how to turn off
> > looking up LC_NUMERIC to determine the radix character for the printf
> > family of functions.
> 
> char *old_locale = setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, "C");
> printf("%f", foo );
> setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, old_locale);
> 
> This should be done for other funtions like scanf(), atof(), ... as
> well, gnome-libs 1.2 contains one such bug in gnome-scores which parses
> the scores-file in a bad way. I have sent a patch to George so hopefully
> it will be solved in the future (next version).

I've applied it to cvs on both branches.

> For now it means for us in sweden and other places that only the integer
> part of the scores are shown. The fraction is always zero.
> 
> The bug-repporting mail-adress is not working for me. It complans that my
> mail doesn't have any Package: and Version: lines. But as far as I know
> they are there. This time I just sent the patch directly to George. But
> that's not the best solution.

Well, it worked :)

George

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