Launchpad has imported 2 comments from the remote bug at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13414.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-11-16T10:28:21+00:00 Martin Pitt wrote: Forwarded from https://launchpad.net/bugs/887395: In the locales package, the file en_ZA (for South Africa) gives a dot '.' as decimal point. However, the Qt library gives a comma ',' as decimal point. This creates problems when a Qt program is trying to communicate with a non Qt program since the decimal point is not the same, numbers are not correctly recognized. After doing some searching, Qt (see http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/QtLocales) takes its locale information from cldr.unicode.org: http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/tags/release-2-0-1/posix/en_ZA.UTF-8.src This page gives a comma as decimal separator. So does Wikipedia (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark - note that a footnote seems to indicate that this may be a recent official decision). Having 2 different definitions for the decimal point on the same system can only lead to problems. ----- http://www.gcis.gov.za/resource_centre/guidelines/styleguide/editorial_styleguide_2011.pdf is an official document which says to use the comma. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/887395/comments/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-11-16T10:31:09+00:00 Martin Pitt wrote: Created attachment 6059 patch Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/887395/comments/3 ** Changed in: glibc Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: glibc Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/887395 Title: en_ZA locale decimal point inconsistency To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/887395/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
