On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Petr Tomasek <toma...@etf.cuni.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Wait... So it won't be possible with gnome-shell/gtk3 applications
>> to have two instances of the same program started with two different
>> locales?
>
> By default, yes, that is correct. Application authors can do whatever
> they want to support this if they think it's important. I'm not
> really convinced that running a whole different process is a sane
> solution for GNumeric to do different decimal separators. At some
> point, you have to start fixing the underlying stack; so libc would
> need to gain sprintf_locale ("en_US.UTF-8", "%f", 0.1) etc.
http://www.manpagez.com/man/3/printf_l/
Unfortunately, never standardized, and only in bsd libcs...
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