On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 21:28 +0100, David Necas (Yeti) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:21:48PM +0100, Quentin wrote: > > > > Here is how I deal with this problem in my program : > > > > use POSIX qw/locale_h/; > > > > # code that don't care what the decimal separator is > > setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, 'C'); > > # code that needs the decimal separator to be '.' > > setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, ''); > > # code that don't care what the decimal separator is > > > > Let me know if there is a better way. > > Definitely. See g_ascii_strtod(), g_ascii_dtostr(), and > related functions. > > Moreover GUI should normally follow locale settings, that's > quite different from `code that doesn't care what the > decimal separator is'. Number format fixed to C is usual > in data files, however. Sorry, I wrongly thought this was in the gtk-perl list. When I said "doesn't care what the decimal separator is", I meant let perl handle it how it wants according to the local setting. I put code between setlocal when handling data files and such. Next time I'll check twice which list I am replying to. :) Quentin _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
