Re: [Rlib-devel] Locale problem in RLIB

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hello,

> Hungarian problems again. :-)

;)

What you want to do seems Fine.  I know Chet @ SICOM did something in
libsrc/pdf.c which is **supposed** to not allow this to happen.  Have a
look in there.  It should really be fixed in RPDF though.

Feel free to make the patch :)

If you do fix it @ the RPDF level perhaps you can biff the libsrc/pdf.c
stuff also since RPDF is really the place to fix it


> Now I reached a phase where my program actually compiles and works
> under Windows, and links to RLIB. But the resulting PDF is unusable.
> Of course I saved it in an O_BINARY file. The problem is that printf(),
> et.al. are conforming to the locale settings, so controlling numbers
> in the PDFs are written as e.g.
> 
> /Frpdf0 9,000 Tf
> 
> instead of
> 
> /Frpdf0 9.000 Tf
> 
> since the decimal separator is a comma, not a dot here in Hungary.
> 
> A simple trick will do it (I fixed unixODBC this way in 2000):
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> char *saved_locale;
> 
> saved_locale = strdup(setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL));
> 
> /* national decimal separator here */
> setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
> /* decimal dots strictly required here */
> setlocale(LC_ALL, saved_locale);
> /* national decimal separator again */
> free(saved_locale);
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> Fortunately setlocale() exists under MingW, too.
> 
> I haven't made a patch against RPDF yet, but you know better
> where to fix it.