[Pipet Devel] Gnome 1.2 and Overflow

[Brad Chapman]

> The "very undesirable feature" concerns those who run gnome with a 
locale
> that
> use the "," as a decimal mark. 

<stupid_american_remark>
Well, why would anyone ever want to run in a non-english locale? :-)
</stupid_american_remark>

> For me (I use the french locale), the floating
> point numbers are printed and parsed with a "," insteat of a ".", 
which
> breaks
> everything. This affects C++ streams. I don't know whether the 
printf and
> scanf
> are affected. The only way around is to unset the language 
environment
> variables.

I don't know how stable 1.2 is supposed to be (it's still in the 
preview stage, right?) but I would report this. It seems like they are 
very for supporting internationalization, so they would probably be 
quite iterested to hear about this problem.

Brad