[Xcircuit-dev] setlocale()

[Mishka]

Greetings!

Having built xcircuit-3.1.5 on NetBSD 1.6R i found
the warning message about inappropriate locale settings
(can't set it).

In the xcircuit.c I found the following:

    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /* Force LC_NUMERIC locale to en_US for decimal point = period */
    /* notation.  The environment variable LC_NUMERIC overrides if */
    /* it is set explicitly, so it has to be unset first to allow  */
    /* setlocale() to work.                                        */
    /*-------------------------------------------------------------*/

#ifdef HAVE_PUTENV
    putenv("LC_ALL=en_US");
    putenv("LC_NUMERIC=en_US");
    putenv("LANG=POSIX");
#else
    unsetenv("LC_ALL");
    unsetenv("LC_NUMERIC");
    setenv("LANG", "POSIX", 1);
#endif
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US");


So my question - is it really need to set LC_NUMERIC to en_US?
I tried use xcircuit without these and found no problem. What
should I do to represent that buggy situation with incorrect
period notation?

--
Thanks in advance,
Mishka.



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