Re: [Gimp-print-devel] stp_init

[Michael S. <mi...@ea...>]

Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>    Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 23:08:51 +0100
>    From: "Alastair M. Robinson" <bla...@fa...>
> 
>    Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> 
>    > Well, that's not good.  What happens if the caller doesn't do this?
> 
>    As I understand it, if the caller doesn't perform a setlocale(LC_ALL,"") 
>    call, then he will simply get "default" (unlocalized) behaviour.
> 
>    > If the caller wants to override the environment settings, how would
>    > this be done if we *don't* make this change?
> 
>    As far as Gutenprint is concerned, I don't think it can be done as the 
>    code currently stands.  The caller can, of course, override the 
>    environment settings *after* calling stp_init(), if it needs customized 
>    behaviour in its own code, but as far as I know Gutenprint's own 
>    translation would honour the environment variables.
> 
> So is there any way of making Gutenprint honor whatever locale setting
> the caller is using?  I don't think it's correct for applications to
> have to call setlocale(), but maybe I'm wrong.

You need to have code like what we have in CUPS (and similar code is
in Cairo, GTK+, etc.) to handle the reading and writing of floating
point values... :(

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