Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>>> Indeed, I've already seen that: when setting the locale to fr_FR.utf8,
>>> without resetting it to C just after the tex.print(), then I get this
>>> error:
>>> !luaTeX error (file
>>> /opt/TeX-live/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman12-regular.otf):
>>> Parsing CFF DICT failed. (error=-1)
>>> ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>> Interesting :-) I suppose some of the strings are localized (like,
>> decimal points being replaced by decimal commas). I already had that
>> when writing a small script to output PDF by hand.
>
> Just about all string-to|from-float C functions (like strtod, scanf,
> atof, printf) and even the string-to|from-integer ones (strtol, scanf),
> are automatically influenced by the locale. The same is true for all
> tests like isspace() and isalpha(). It is intended to be helpful,
> but as a programmer I simply hate it.
why not completely remove locatel then ... probably also faster
btw, nilling the locale is done in mkiv:
os.setlocale(nil,nil) -- useless feature and even dangerous in luatex
one of the first lines of lua i wrote -)
Hans
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