Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Oof. So it is some weird locale thing that scanf is doing. I don't even > want to think about what the details could be. ;) > > Since scanf is such a bad and error-prone interface in the first place > (and I'd actually like to put it on the banned list), what about just > parsing manually here? Me likee. This will eradicate the only use of sscanf() from the tree; unfortunately there is a topic that adds a new one or two back in flight X-<.