[XForms] strange side effect of fl_initialize()

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes at inria.fr
Thu Oct 14 09:55:08 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Jürg" == Jürg Hauser <juerg.hauser at krist.unibe.ch> writes:

Jürg> To subscribers of the xforms list Jean-Marc,
>>  A wild guess: fl_initialize calls setlocale(LC_ALL,""). Could it
>> be that it affects sscanf()?
>> 
Jürg> It maybe was a wild guess but it also is a full hit. Thanks a
Jürg> lot! Juerg

I really think that we should remove this setlocale from
fl_initialize. The question is: are there applications out there which
depend on this behaviour?

I would like to do it before 1.1, actually (this was a new and
undocumented behaviour since xforms 0.89.5).

JMarc



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