On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Carlos Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Please, consider some rewirtting of your application to do not write locale-dependent values (floating point numbers, month abbrevs, day-of-week abbrevs, and so on...) in the data files, or your files will become unreadable after changing of locale (and, if I understand correctly, you already hit this problem). Use some locale-independent variant instead. For case of the floating point values it could be dot-based variant as in the "C" locale. See g_ascii_dtostr() and/or g_ascii_formatd() for formatting/serialization of double to string, and g_ascii_strtod() and/or g_strtod() converting back from string to double. -- Andrew W. Nosenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
