Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org> writes:

> On 8 July 2012 08:25, Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.ville...@ens.fr> wrote:
>> What happens is that OpenJDK 7 changes the locale settings and, in
>> locale environments where the decimal separator is a comma and not a
>> point, that makes Octave crash when reading a decimal number (as simple
>> as "0.1").
>
> A change in locale should not make Octave crash. Do you have a
> stripped-down example of how to reproduce this? I tried:
>
>     jordi@Iris:~$ echo 0.1 > foo
>     jordi@Iris:~$ LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 octave --eval 'load foo'
>
> and I did not see a crash.

BTW, my patch was inspired by what is done in the following Oct-file
From Octave core, which seems to deal with a similar issue:

 src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/__magick_read__.cc  (in function maybe_initialize_magick)

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