On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:14 +0200, Vivien Malerba wrote: > > It says that string is meant to be human-readable, but it ignores > the > > current locale, and it makes assumptions about the numeric > formatting > > wanted. So it's no use for actually showing to a human. I suggest > that > > it be marked as "useful only for debugging, and not for showing > values > > in your user interface." > > > > It is also very usefull when you want to save a value in an (XML for > example) file and you need to be able to read it back even if the > locale has changed.
OK. I think we can call that "serialization", in a canonical locale-independent human-readable format. Both uses should be mentioned in the documentation. And the documentation should clearly state that it's not for showing in your application's UI. > If you want to take into account the locale, then you should use the > GdaDataHandler which both takes into account the locale and any syntax > specific to a DBMS. GdaDataHandler objects are created and managed by > each provider and you can use them just after having obtained a > pointer to one using gda_server_provider_get_data_handler_gtype() or > gda_server_provider_get_data_handler_dbms(). Is there documentation, or an example, of this somewhere? -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gnome-db-list mailing list gnome-db-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list
