Subject: Re: I18n floating point conversions
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Nov 20 2000 - 17:35:06 CST
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Mike Nordell wrote:
> If any of the following is just my ignorance, please state so and just point
> me in the right direction.
>
> Do we currently have some functions to convert to/from floating point text
> representation in an i18n fashion?
>
> In e.g. Germany and Sweden the non-computer world use e.g. "1,72", when we
> computer users use "1.72" (comma vs. dot). I'd assume some function using
> localeconv() or setlocale(), but searching the sources for these strings I
> found nothing helpful.
>
> I'm now facing this problem in the lists dialog, and just wanted to know if
> this problem is already solved by some other means in AW.
>
> Perhaps this post only boils down to "Is there a way to convert from AW
> internal language representation to the C language representation of locales
> (to be used in setlocale())".
>
> localeconv() and also C++ standard library takes care of this, but
> unfortunately we're currently forbidden to use the standard C++ library (for
> one thing it uses templates) and the lack of proper localeconv() and
> setlocale() in the code makes me think that this is perhaps a new issue.
>
> If it indeed is a new issue, I'd have to say that 0.7.12 would have to be
> released without Win32 Lists dialog (to be released anytime soon). Also,
> should this be the case, it would probably need a release note stating this
> problem.
>
HI Mike,
You can easily tell if the internationalization of Abi is
sufficiently advanced to tell the difference between "." and "," based
locale. Just look at the default tabs entry in the Tabs dialog. This issue
never occured to me before so I haven't checked the code.
Cheers
Martin
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