[Psidev-ms-dev] Locale Issue with converter

[sneumann <sne...@ip...>]

Hi,

we'vre just experienced a problem with an mzData converter,
and that kind of bug might easily slip into mzML converters,
so we'd like to mention that here.

We have a PC setup for our Qstar with Analyst and wiff2mzData converter,
which works fine. Recently we set up a new PC, which now has german setting=
s
as default. Guess what, in the XML we find

          <spectrumInstrument msLevel=3D"1" mzRangeStart=3D"75,00" mzRangeS=
top=3D"1000,00">
            <cvParam cvLabel=3D"psi" accession=3D"PSI:1000038" name=3D"Time=
InMinutes" value=3D"0,033" />

In the mzdata.xsd value is a string, so (syntactically) 0,033 is fine:
	<xs:attribute name=3D"value" type=3D"xs:string" use=3D"optional">

and mzRange is defined as float:
	<xs:attribute name=3D"mzRangeStart" type=3D"xs:float" use=3D"optional"/>

The character encoding is defined in the first line of the XML files,
	<?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"utf-8"?>

but how are different locales (supposed to be) handled ?=20
I know this is a very implementation-related question,=20
but I'd suggest to at least mention this kind of issue=20
in the documentation.

Yours,
Steffen

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