On Tue 25 Aug 2015 09:54:42 AM CEST, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Switching back to C locale whenever some unwanted locale-dependency > breaks the code is problematic, because it involves finding all the > places that break, iteratively (euphemism for "we debug one breakage > after the other, adding temporary locale switches as we go). > > I'd feel much better about confining GTK in its own thread, and > setting only that thread's locale.
FWIW GTK+ is not thread safe, all GTK+ code must run in the same thread, so that should already be happening. I assume however that it's the same thread that runs the monitor, so that might not be a solution in the end. Berto