[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#567727: paraview: Locale-dependent number format in .pvd files

[Jö Fahlke]

Package: paraview
Version: 3.6.2-1~joe1
Severity: normal

I have a .pvd file with entries like

<DataSet timestep="9.62917e-10" group="" part="0" name="" file="./s0001:fdtd-00001.pvtu"/> 

If a german locale (LANG=de_DE.UTF-8) is in effect, paraview reads the
timestep as the integer "9" without any diagnostic.  If I replace the decimal
seperator in the data file with the german ",", like this:

<DataSet timestep="9,62917e-10" group="" part="0" name="" file="./s0001:fdtd-00001.pvtu"/> 

then paraview reads the timestep correctly.  If I leave the decimal seperator
in the data file as ".", but start paraview with LC_ALL=C, the timestep is
also read correctly.  An example dataset is attached.

Note that the Calculator filter suffers from a similiar problem; any number
containing a decimal point is accepted, but anything after the point is
silently ignored.

Note also that the package version 3.6.2-1~joe1 above is the version 3.6.2-1
from unstable recompiled for testing.

Bye,
Jö.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages paraview depends on:
ii  libavcodec52       5:0.5+svn20100115-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi
ii  libavformat52      5:0.5+svn20100115-0.0 ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil50        5:0.5+svn20100115-0.0 avutil shared libraries
ii  libc6              2.10.2-2              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-7               XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-2               generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.3.11-1              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1            1:4.4.2-9             GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [l 7.6.1-1               A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.22.4-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglu1-mesa [libg 7.6.1-1               The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libhdf5-openmpi-1. 1.8.3-2.1             Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6            2:1.0.6-1             X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62          6b-15                 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libopenmpi1.3      1.3.3-4               high performance message passing l
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.42-1              PNG library - runtime
ii  libpython2.6       2.6.4-4               Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii  libqt4-assistant   4:4.5.3-4             Qt 4 assistant module
ii  libqt4-dbus        4:4.5.3-4             Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libqt4-network     4:4.5.3-4             Qt 4 network module
ii  libqt4-sql         4:4.5.3-4             Qt 4 SQL module
ii  libqt4-xml         4:4.5.3-4             Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore4         4:4.5.3-4             Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4          4:4.5.3-4             Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libsm6             2:1.1.1-1             X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6         4.4.2-9               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libswscale0        5:0.5+svn20100115-0.0 ffmpeg video scaling library
ii  libtiff4           3.9.2-2               Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6           2:1.3.3-1             X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6           2:1.1.1-2             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2            2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1       GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1        1:0.9.5-1             X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6             1:1.0.7-1             X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  python             2.5.4-9               An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support     1.0.6                 automated rebuilding support for P
ii  qt4-dev-tools      4:4.5.3-4             Qt 4 development tools
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages paraview recommends:
ii  mpi-default-bin               0.6        Standard MPI runtime programs
ii  qt4-dev-tools                 4:4.5.3-4  Qt 4 development tools

Versions of packages paraview suggests:
ii  h5utils                       1.12-2     HDF5 files visualization tools
ii  hdf5-tools                    1.8.3-2.1  Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 

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