On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 07:55:41PM +0200, Uwe Koloska wrote: > Hey, you are right! By starting gimp with > > LC_ALL=C gimp-1.1 > > or more exact > > LC_NUMERIC=C gimp-1.1 > > gdyntext works as expected. Maybe this is the same sort of error acrobat > reader 4.05 has to fight with (cannot open most embedded font when run with > locale other than "C"). I have just confirmed, and fixed (well sent off a patch) a bug in Xsane, an external Gimp plug-in, which has this same problem. It is ESSENTIAL when communicating across the Gimp wire, that a plug-in operates in LC_NUMERIC == "C", I do not think it is wise to change this assumption during the last leg to 1.2.0 and almost ALL existing plug-ins accept this behaviour by (a) Using the normal gimp_main() stuff provided by gimp.h, which magically calls setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C"); for itself anyway. and (b) Not manually fiddling with their locale settings If GDyntext doesn't use gimp_main() stuff, or does fiddle with its own locale settings (either generally or LC_NUMERIC in particular) then it needs to be altered to provide working i18n, I suggest removing any private setlocale() stuff or otherwise altering GDyntext not to alter the LC_NUMERIC settings from their defaults. For Gimp 1.3 we might re-think the wire protocol to avoid this mess? Nick.
