[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Use _NET_WM_NAME for UTF-8 title in X11 if supported

[Sergey Pinaev]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:04:02 +0200
Ivo <ivop at euronet.nl> wrote:

> > I didnt get your point. Thats exactly why LC_NUMERIC exist. If you want
> > "same format regardless of locale" - you call setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");
> > If you want "printing messages in the user's own cultural conventions" -
> > you call setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, ""). (And user that does not like "," in
> > place of "." just sets LC_NUMERIC to "C" in his shell profile =/)
> 
> The problem lies, for example, in parsers that use scanf to read a float 
> value. If the locale enforces a ',' as decimal separator, reading 1.2:3.4 
> with %f:%f will fail. Setting all sorts of LC_* environment variables is 
> not something most "normal" users know about.

Whats the relation between ``"normal" users'' and "developers"?
Let me repeat: If you (the developer of parser that use scanf to read a float
value that ALWAYS have dot as separator) want "same format regardless of
locale" - you call setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C").
If you dumb enough to not call it - its your problem.

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