[XForms] dot vs. comma (0.88 vs. 1.0.x)

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Thoms Toerring <Jens.Toerring at physik.fu-berlin.de> writes:

Jens> To subscribers of the xforms list
Jens> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:13:16PM +0200, Bernd Hahnebach wrote:
>> 2. It's again about XStab. As I said the software compiles using
>> xforms 0.88 as well as using xforms 1.0.x There is only one
>> differences which is quit important. The decimal separator in the
>> whole software is a dot using 0.88 and a comma using 1.0.x. The
>> comma causes big problems. I would like to use xforms 1.0.x and the
>> dot as decimal separator.

Jens> Newer versions of xforms seem to set the locale to the one set
Jens> in the environment variables (caught me also unaware when that
Jens> happened, suddenly lots of things stopped working...). You may
Jens> have to tell it which one to use instead after the
Jens> fl_initialize() call. I usually set it with

Jens> setlocale( LC_NUMERIC, "C" );

Jens> directly after the flinitialize() call.

Yes, this began after xforms 0.89.5 and I do not really like it :(
However, I am not sure that we should remove that now...

JMarc