RE: Locale definitions, dots and commas

["eman2 agavesys com" <eman2 agavesys com>]

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Carlos Pereira
> <jose carlos pereira ist utl pt> wrote:

> >  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...

Well For what little it is worth, when I had this issue I some sort of 
string on the first line of the file telling me the format

<encoding decimalChar="."/>

I guess one could also put the local where the file was created on the 
first like and then set that local before loading the rest of the file ..

<LOCALE>french</LOCALE>

... or not
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Eric Hegstrom
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