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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:22:55 +0400
From: Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] LC_NUMERIC - problems due to decimal comma
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 01:06:43PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 08:15:17PM +0100, Jonatan Åkerlind wrote:
> > On fre, 2014-03-21 at 10:15 +0100, Juergen Harms wrote:
> > > How about a solution, that does (in src/main.c, right after the call to 
> > > setlocale (LC_ALL,""); - it imports the locale from the environment) 
> > > call setlocale (LC_NUMERIC,"en_US.UTF-8 )?
> > 
> > I think it would be better to use a portable locale like POSIX or C to
> > avoid the dependency of needing the en_US.UTF-8 locale.
> >
> 
> It would be better still to replace the output functions with
> locale-independent ones (eg g_ascii_* and friends, or our own
> pcb_printf which has an option somewhere to force '.' decimal
> points.

There is already a patch on launchpad which fixes the issue with decimal
point:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/1074268/+attachment/3968574/+files/0001-Use-LC_NUMERIC-C-totally-everywhere-within-the-progr.patch