Re: decimal separator for numbers in gtk+-2.x (help!)

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, domi wrote:

> Hi all !
>
> I upgrade my application from gtk-1.2.8 to gtk-2.2.4, and I am stopped by a
> stupid problem: the decimal separator is now by default a "," instead of a
> "."

It comes from your locale.

> the consequences are catastrophic : the scanf(), or sscanf() function are not
> able now to read files containing always number with "." as decimal
> separator.

g_strtod knows how to handle that.

> Where can I change this setting ?


Start your application with LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf-8.

> I tried to change the decimal separator in the Center of configuration KDE,
> but it has no effects on the scanf() functions !
>
> If someone can help me ..
>
> Dominique Reymond

behdad