Re: [Hamlib-developer] [Hamlib/Hamlib] c8838c: Avoid truncating AC Log frequencies above 1 GHz

[George B. <geo...@gm...>]

On 5/2/25 2:00 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2025 02 May 12:41 -0500, George Baltz wrote:
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but did anybody ask the upstream why they were
>> adding human-oriented punctuation to a computer-to-computer communication?
>> Formatting should almost always be done at the final user interface, to
>> allow for locality based display.
> Mike, K7MDL, noted this in the initial report:
>
> "I first posted this to the WSJT-X dev list but this seems to be a more
> proper place to file the bug. Also spoke with N3FJP about maybe removing
> the comma on the AC Log side but that API is used with several apps and
> could result in breakage, making the change here is the safest."
>
> https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib/issues/1704
>
> Just another one of those decisions that becomes painful to fix later
> on.

You can say that again.  Aside from being flat-out wrong for a good 
portion of the world, it requires special processing on both ends of the 
connection, and sort of defeats the purpose of XML.


Sigh.

73 n3gb

> 73, Nate
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