Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Carlos Pereira wrote: >> Hi, >> I received a message (see below) complaining about using dots instead >> of commas in decimal numbers. What are the best solutions for this, >> from the gtk point of view? >> >>> What happens is that in my French locale, the decimal >symbol is ',' >>> not '.' ! >>> Have a nice day, (and good luck with the bug). >> >
> $ man 1p locale > -> ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES > This is the typical problem in engineering. > you only puthis this method before gtk_main(); > gtk_disable_setlocale (); Thanks for your answers, I realize this is not Gtk stuff, but certainly affects every GTK app involving decimal numbers... After setting in my .bashrc, for example (the same with portuguese, russian, etc.): LC_ALL=french; export LC_ALL Everything automatically works in my GTK app, with commas instead of dots, including exporting and importing files (involving for example the Expat XML library). However, a problem remains: my app is distributed with several hundreds of example data files, ready to be imported. If these files are dot-based, comma people cannot import them. If these files are comma-based, dot people cannot import them... Unless I have two versions for each file (which seems odd), or I supply a script to automatically convert dot- to comma-based files... If I use gtk_disable_setlocale, then dots are always used, but that does not seem quite right... basically I am ignoring user's preference for commas... Is there a good solution for this? am I missing something? What is the standard procedure in Gnome to handle this problem? Thanks, Carlos _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
