Re: [ gnuplot-Bugs-1217701 ] Locale settings not initialized properly

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 13 June 2005 01:02 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:
> 
> > I was under the impression that there is no way of separating the locale
> > used for input (e.g. scanf) from the locale used for output (e.g. printf).
> > Do you know otherwise?
> 
> Well, we know when we're doing what, so we could conceivably switch 
> between the two at the correct times during the process.  Worst thing 
> that could happen is slightly unexpected error messages in input locale 
> rather than output locale, if they are printed during datafile reading.

It would have to be a very fine-grained switch, bracketing each
scanf/printf call.  For instance a plot command like
	plot 'foo' using 1:2:(sprintf(format,column(3))) with labels
will be mixing scanf and sprintf during the parsing of every data line.

Could be done, but I can already here the screams about the performance
hit :-)

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