Quoting Damon Chaplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Gustavo Valdes wrote:
> >
> > Hello:
> > The last comment about an internationalization issue sounds
> good, but
> > the problems is get only when working with nome, I mean, if I make a
> simple
> > program (just a main fuction using the atof function and including the
> > stdlib.h library) it works well. But if I make a simple GUI program
> with
> > Gnome, using an entry box to get the value from the user, convert it
> to
> > float, adding it an arbitrary amount and then display the result in
> another
> > entry box it does not work, so, It could be some internationalization
> issue,
> > but it is affecting just Gnome and not the complete Linux enviroment.
> So,
> > where could I disable or change this kind of setting?
> >
> > By the way, I have solved the problem writing a function that
> receives
> > a char* parameter then looks for the ',' character and changes for a
> '.'
> > character and then I use atof, and it works fine. But I REALLY want to
> know
> > how to avoid this misbehavior.
>
> Your simple program probably doesn't call setlocale() to set up the i18n
> stuff,
> so it avoids the problem completely.
>
> It seems that the locale that you are using (e.g. your LANG setting)
> uses
> commas as decimal points.
>
> (I had this problem in Glade itself. I had to temporarily set the locale
> to "C"
> when saving the XML files so that it used '.' when outputting decimal
> points.)
>
> Damon
>
I just saw this in the Apache Init V runlevel script (/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd on
my system). Perhaps this is a glibc problem?? Just a thought, perhaps its
related to a particular version or something. Lates
Josh Green
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd excerpt:
# Until glibc's locale support is working right again, work around it.
LANG=C
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