Re: locales and .Xdefaults

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > Cannot be .Xdefaults parsing locale-independent?
> That's not for us to decide, I think: we don't parse .Xdefaults
> ourselves, but rather have X11 API functions do that for us.  Thus the
> problem, if any, is in X11.

No, it is in gnuplot -- gplt_x11.c:

   if (sscanf(v, "%30[^,],%lf", color, &intensity) == 2) {
	if (intensity < 0 || intensity > 1) {
	    fprintf(stderr, "\ngnuplot: invalid color intensity in '%s'\n", color);
	    intensity = 1;
	}
    } else {
	strcpy(color, v);
	intensity = 1;
    }

It is the above sscanf() which returns different values according to locale.
Funny -- gnuplot ignores locale, gnuplot_x11 takes care about them:
	sscanf("3,1415", "%lg", &x);
gives different results in command.c and gplt_x11.c.

It seems that this in gplt_x11.c
	setlocale(LC_ALL, "")==NULL
is responsible for the problems.

Could locales be ignored when reading .Xdefaults?

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