Bug#582421: [Patch] Floating point is broken if :lang is called in gvim
Bram Moolenaar
Bram at Moolenaar.net
Thu May 20 20:12:50 UTC 2010
James -
> If the locale is changed in gvim via ":lang" to a locale which uses
> comma for the decimal separator, then floating point numbers are no
> longer usable. This only happens with the ":lang $locale" variant,
> since that sets $LANG before calling gtk_set_locale().
>
> env LANG=C gvim
> :lang es_ES.UTF-8
> :lang messages C " so errors are in English
> :echo ceil(1.2)
> E806: using Float as a String
> E116: Invalid arguments for function ceil(1.2)
> E15: Invalid expression: ceil(1.2)
> :echo str2float('1.2')
> 1,0
> :echo str2float('1,2')
> 1,2
>
> Attached patch fixes the issue by ensuring $LC_NUMERIC is set to C if
> the LC_ALL version of :lang is called.
Thanks. In other places we do this:
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");
Thus I think we should do the same in this place.
- Bram
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