[ghemical-devel] LC_NUMERIC problem

[Tommi Hassinen]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Jean Br=E9fort wrote:

> I do not believe this is a good idea. Generally, programs save and load
> files in C locale, at least for numerical data. So there is no
> compatibility problem. Here is how it works :

Ok, which ever way is the standard one. Sure it seems to make most sense
to save the files using standard "C" locale, and always temporarily
switch into "C" locale to read them in, as you showed.

I just remembered the Excel spreadsheet as an example that does the
exact opposite ; if I read a text file in Excel with data 1.234 it will be
treated as a string, not as a number (it still works that way, I just
checked). Ok, perhaps one remebers more easily the bad implementations
that do not work, rather than the good ones that do work without a hitch! :=
)

Ok, I'll try to switch the file operations inside "C" locale temporarily,
I think that is the most simple way.

Regards,

=09Tommi