Re: Locale definitions, dots and commas

[Carlos Pereira <jose carlos pereira ist utl pt>]

Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Carlos Pereira wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I received a message (see below) complaining about using dots instead 
> > of commas in decimal numbers. What are the best solutions for this, 
> > from the gtk point of view?
> >
> > > What happens is that in my French locale, the decimal >symbol is ',' 
> > > not '.' !
> > > Have a nice day, (and good luck with the bug).

>   $ man 1p locale
>   -> ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES


>  This is the typical problem in engineering.
>  you only puthis this method before gtk_main();
>  gtk_disable_setlocale ();

Thanks for your answers, I realize this is not Gtk stuff,
but certainly affects every GTK app involving decimal numbers...

After setting in my .bashrc, for example (the same with portuguese, 
russian, etc.):

LC_ALL=french; export LC_ALL

Everything automatically works in my GTK app, with commas instead of 
dots, including exporting and importing files (involving for example the 
Expat XML library).

However, a problem remains: my app is distributed with several hundreds 
of example data files, ready to be imported. If these files are 
dot-based, comma people cannot import them. If these files are 
comma-based, dot people cannot import them... Unless I have two versions 
for each file (which seems odd), or I supply a script to automatically 
convert dot- to comma-based files...

If I use gtk_disable_setlocale, then dots are always used, but that does 
not seem quite right... basically I am ignoring user's preference for 
commas...

Is there a good solution for this? am I missing something?
What is the standard procedure in Gnome to handle this problem?

Thanks,
Carlos