[Gretl-devel] decimal point (2)

[Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza]

On Tuesday 08 May 2007 22:43:32 Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
> > I repeated your steps, and run the suggested commands, obtaining the
> > following...
>
> I have made a few changes in CVS after studying the output you
> sent.
>
> I'm still sowewhat baffled by Ubuntu's handling of locales, but
> maybe the changes will help.
>
> Allin.
> _______________________________________________


Allin, I reinstalled Gretl from the CVS and repeated again the steps you 
mentioned in your message some days ago, and run the suggested commands.
I obtained the following:


> > LANGUAGE=spanish gretl
> >
> > -- I get the Spanish translation, but not the decimal comma.
>

 The same.

>
> > LANG=spanish gretl
> >
> > -- English strings plus decimal comma
>
 I obtain the error:

(gretl_x11:6261): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.


 and gretl appears in english.

>
> > LANGUAGE=spanish LANG=spanish
> >
> > -- (expected by now) Spanish strings plus decimal comma.
>

 The same error:

(gretl_x11:6270): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

 and gretl working in english.

>
> > LANGUAGE=spanish LC_ALL=spanish

This changed from what happened some days before, now I obtain gretl running 
in Spanish, but the decimals are not commas.

>
> > LANGUAGE=spanish LC_NUMERIC=spanish gretl
> >
> > -- Spanish strings, no decimal comma (this seems to me to be
> >    broken).
>
> Now the same error is displayed, but gretl appears IN SPANISH:
>

(gretl_x11:6292): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

Gretl working in english

>
> > For comparison, on my own (non-Ubuntu, originally derived from
> > Slackware) Linux system I get Spanish strings and also the
> > decimal comma using
> >
> > LANG=es_ES gretl
>
> LANG=es_ES gretl
>

(gretl_x11:6301): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.


And gretl appears in English.

>
> > As for the -e or --english option, I can't replicate the problem.
> > In all cases where I get gretl to come up in Spanish, I can
> > prevent that by appending -e to the command line.
>
> I can see no error when executing "gretl --english" (or gretl -e) but gretl
> appears in Spanish.

Thi is corrected now, the command "gretl --english" (or gretl -e) produces 
Gretl running in English, and no error message.




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