Re: Gnome desktop setting

["Matthew S. Rinehart" <msrinehart cs millersville edu>]

It sounds like a locale issue to me.  Run `localedrake` and make sure
that the setting is what you're expecting ("English (American)" is what
mine's set at).  It's possible you have it on a locale that switches the
roles of dot and comma in numbers.

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 13:42, Chiara Zaniboni wrote:
> I'v installed Mandrake 9.1 on a PC and I use gnome desktop. I try to run 
> a GUI application developed with Glade (and C language) and when I 
> perform ad istruction like
> fprintf(stderr,"%lf",var);
> the output that I see on the gnome terminal is like
> 750,82 (a comma separates the decimal part of the number from the 
> integer one)
> and not
> 750.82 (a dot separates the decimal part of the number from the integer one)
> as I desire.
> The comma is a problem for the entire application. I suppose that this 
> can be due to a setting of the gnome desktop (infact non-GUI 
> applications developed in C language work correctly and the printf 
> istructions produces dot-separated number on the terminal): is this true?
> Hov can I solve the problem?
> 
> Thank-you!
> 
> Chiara
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Matthew S. Rinehart <msrinehart cs millersville edu>