Sensitivity to locale settings

s1s0 / toped

Cross platform, open source IC layout editor

http://www.toped.org.uk/

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Sensitivity to locale settings #145

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

One example are German locales
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF8
(as oppose to LC_ALL=en=US.UTF8)
1. Time stamps and recovery - because of the weird time stamps the recovery 
will be broken. The tool issues a warning, yet it is not enough by far.
2. real numbers in the dialog boxes (grid step for example)

There will be more I guess
(to be documented)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by krustev....@gmail.com on 6 Jun 2012 at 11:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

This exchange is related to the same issue

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/toped-devel/ANyUNfrNXAM

Original comment by krustev....@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2012 at 12:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Further effect related to this:
Some locales define comma as a decimal separator. Tell requires decimal point, 
otherwise it can't parse the files properly.
So,when the user is adding a layout object using the mouse - every click of a 
mouse produces a number with decimal comma. Consequently the parser reports an 
illegal entry.

Original comment by krustev....@gmail.com on 29 Mar 2014 at 5:13