This is my Win64 locale: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
-Dan On 2016-08-27 1:00 PM, Claude Marinier wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 11:03AM -0400, Peter Bex wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 11:08:20AM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote: > > > We have seen this before but these may not be related. > > > https://github.com/nickg/swank-chicken/issues/10 > > > > > > > http://nongnu.13855.n7.nabble.com/quot-panic-invalid-encoded-numeric-literal-quot-with-gtk-td196533.html > > > > > > The other interesting question is: Why me? > > > > I asked Hugo on IRC if he ever figured out why he got this error, and > > it turns out that CHICKEN has a bug in that its numeric parser relies > > on C functions to convert strings to numbers, which means it's locale- > > sensitive. It shouldn't do that (because string->number isn't defined > > to be locale-sensitive in the Scheme spec). > > > > See: > https://gist.github.com/hugoArregui/7b5626c7dc00f45cdb4ea8721db4f777 > > > > Can you check your locale environment variables, and see if resetting > > it to the "C" locale works around the bug? > > Hi Peter, > > The locale is "English_Canada.1252". > > So if Dan Leslie's environment has a locale of "C", that may explain why > it works for him. > > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2016-08/msg00011.html > > If I can find a way to temporarily set the locale from the command prompt, > I can bracket the build with a pair to switch to "C" and back. > Otherwise, I > will have to use the Control Panel. I shall experiment. > > Thanks. > > -- > Claude Marinier
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