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On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:12:44PM +0200, Juergen Harms wrote:
> I did nevertheless some more digging: the problem seems clearly to
> be a bug in the "fprintAperture" procedure of gerber.c:
> 
> The new version prints floating-point values in gerber output using
> the %mi format (locale dependant radix decimal "point"):
> - for GUI (interactive) output, pcb apparently forces this to a ".",
> - in non-GUI mode pcb really outputs the current locale for the
> decimal point is (a "," in my case - Austria).
> 
> As a consequence and if the locale is different from the ".", the
> Gerber files produced by command-line "pcb -x gerber" have a comma
> where gerber format certainly expects a dot).
> 
> My old version of pcb uses the old %f format - no problem there. I
> will have to find out how to submit a bug on pcb.
>

Thank you for your thorough investigation! This would have been quite
an adventure to track down without your help.

This weekend is very busy for me, and I likely won't get a chance
to work on this bug until Wednesday or Thursday. Perhaps another
developer would like to take a look at it. The solution is probably
to add a flag to the %mi specifier to force it to output a '.'.

The bug tracker is at:
http://www.launchpad.net/pcb


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