Bug#565305: ipe does not draw arrow heads on polylines

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:47:16PM +0200, Miquel Teixidó wrote:

Hello!  Sorry, I somehow missed this email at the time.

> I'm experiencing the same bug. As Steve pointed out I found it is a locale
> problem, the problem is with LC_NUMERIC, some locales (spanish in my case)
> and german I think use , as the decimal separator this causes an error in
> reading the stylesheet because all the values are truncated to integers. If
> a locale is chosen with . as the decimal separator ipe works as expected.
> 
> If in the terminal I do:
> :~$ LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> :~$ export LC_NUMERIC
> :~$ ipe
> 
> ipe works perfectly with arrows and everything.
> 
> I hope this workaround will be helpful.

Thanks for this!  What version of Ipe are you using?

I'm afraid I cannot reproduce this problem on my system.  I tried
setting LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 prior to running ipe and still
the arrow heads work.

Still puzzled,
-Steve
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