Bug#582421: [Patch] Floating point is broken if :lang is called in gvim
James Vega
jamessan at debian.org
Thu May 20 21:01:01 UTC 2010
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:12:50PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > If the locale is changed in gvim via ":lang" to a locale which uses
> > comma for the decimal separator, then floating point numbers are no
> > longer usable. This only happens with the ":lang $locale" variant,
> > since that sets $LANG before calling gtk_set_locale().
> >
> > env LANG=C gvim
> > :lang es_ES.UTF-8
> > :lang messages C " so errors are in English
> > :echo ceil(1.2)
> > E806: using Float as a String
> > E116: Invalid arguments for function ceil(1.2)
> > E15: Invalid expression: ceil(1.2)
> > :echo str2float('1.2')
> > 1,0
> > :echo str2float('1,2')
> > 1,2
> >
> > Attached patch fixes the issue by ensuring $LC_NUMERIC is set to C if
> > the LC_ALL version of :lang is called.
>
> Thanks. In other places we do this:
>
> setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");
>
> Thus I think we should do the same in this place.
That won't work here. The issue is specifically to do with the
environment variables present when gtk_set_locale is called. In fact,
there's already an instance of “setlocal(LC_NUMERIC, "C");” a few lines
above the code my patch adds.
--
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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