Dominique Pelle wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I no longer get errors after setting this var: > >> > > >> > $ export LC_NUMERIC=C > >> > > >> > So I'm guessing GVim is not successfully setting it in some > >> > circumstances. I never get this error running the terminal vim, no > >> > matter what my language preference is set to. > >> > >> Ah, I was trying with Vim in a terminal. But trying with gvim, > >> I can now reproduce the problem (at least with GTK2 or Motif GUIs). > >> And I confirm that doing "export LC_NUMERIC=C" before > >> running gvim works around the issue. > > > > I suspect that after Vim changes the locale, the GUI changes it to > > something else. GTK is known to assume it can do anything to the global > > setup of the program. Perhaps with some gdb debugging one can find out > > what happens to the locale during startup. > > Yes, that's correct. > > I sent a patch earlier which fixes this issue but I changed the > email subject when replying which broke the thread (sorry about > that). See email sent earlier in vim_dev with this subject: > > "[patch] fixed bug: floating point numbers cannot be used as arguments > in GVIM + lang"
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