Hello, Uwe On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Uwe Bonnes <b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote: > gerbv at the moment uses ',' and 'x' as delimiter between X and Y > coordinates. E.g. the translate command uses ',' and origin uses 'x'. > > Both delimiters have their problems: > - 'x' causes trouble in a construct like "0x1" for X = 0 and Y = 1, as scanf > interprets '0x1' as a hexadecimal number and we will read X=1 and Y=0 as > result. > - ',' has problems in a LANG environment where ',' is the decimal delimiter, > so "0,1" for X=1 and Y=0 results in x=0.1 and y=0. > > https://sourceforge.net/p/gerbv/bugs/216/ and my patch was a fast shot at > this problem. As Sergey pointed out, ';' is widely used as coordinates > delimiter.
The patch of yours is no rejected. As you are ok with ';' instead of ':', then you should submit the new patch to bug report. > Should I come up with a patch moving all 'x' and ',' used as coordinated > delimiter to ';'? But 'x' delimiter must also work, if we do not want to break existed user scripts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Gerbv-devel mailing list Gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-devel
