John Darrington <[email protected]> writes: > If I am right that this is a libc is the independent variable, > then we can expect a lot of users to start complaining after > their operating systems get upgraded. Mindaugus correctly > points out that ignoring the LC_NUMERIC locale is not good > anyway (it means that certain aspects of the GUI don't get > displayed as users might want). So I think we need to fix the > problem, not just the symptom. That is to say, we should set > ALL locale categories, and deal with the consequences where, in > the past we have relied upon the C locale behaviour. > > There are several approaches that I can think of: > > 1. Use write a set of c-printf functions. Unfortunately, there > aren't any in gnulib.
John and I talked about this in #pspp today. We agreed to aim toward this approach. John started in on it by committing some changes to use c_strtod() in place of strtod() where necessary. _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
