[XForms] strange side effect of fl_initialize()

[jason cipriani]

I think I remember reading about this on this mail list in the past. If I'm not mistaken, setlocale() affects how sscanf reads numbers as far as things like using a "," or a "." to read decimal points, and other things probably. Could you be a little more specific about the "strange results"?

Jason

> Jürg> To subscribers of the xforms list Hi all, I'm trying to move a
> Jürg> program which runs on IRIX and RedHat 7.3 to SuSE 9.1. The
> Jürg> program fails because a sscanf() instruction not involved in any
> Jürg> Xforms business gives strange results. If I remove
> Jürg> fl_initialize() (and all other fl_ instructions) sscanf() works
> Jürg> prefectly well. If I add fl_initalize() only again, sscanf()
> Jürg> behaves strange again. I've tried XForms 1.0 and 1.0.90. Any
> Jürg> ideas?
> 
> A wild guess: fl_initialize calls setlocale(LC_ALL,""). Could it be
> that it affects sscanf()?
> 
> JMarc