[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Fix dll loading with Turkish locales

Ismail Donmez ismail at kde.org.tr
Wed Jan 19 19:21:23 CET 2005


On Wednesday 19 January 2005 20:26, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> I have a much simpler patch proposal: remove setlocale() from
> mplayer.c. Unless/until mplayer works around all this brokenness, it
> should not be used. There are all sorts of issues with . versus , in
> numbers, and many more I'm sure. What is locale even useful for?? Do
> users really care if their local date format/decimal separator is
> used??? IMO it's all nonsense.

Best small hack is use setLocale() in startup code of mplayer/mencoder and 
reset it back at exit. And remove all other setLocale calls

Cheers,
ismail




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