Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Petr Tomasek <tomasek etf cuni cz> wrote:
>>
>> Wait... So it won't be possible with gnome-shell/gtk3 applications
>> to have two instances of the same program started with two different
>> locales?
>
> By default, yes, that is correct.  Application authors can do whatever
> they want to support this if they think it's important.  I'm not
> really convinced that running a whole different process is a sane
> solution for GNumeric to do different decimal separators.  At some
> point, you have to start fixing the underlying stack; so libc would
> need to gain sprintf_locale ("en_US.UTF-8", "%f", 0.1) etc.

http://www.manpagez.com/man/3/printf_l/

Unfortunately, never standardized, and only in bsd libcs...