[Gretl-devel] decimal point (2)

[Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza]

On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:44:34 Allin Cottrell wrote:

> In an earlier message you reported that your LANG setting was
> es_ES.UTF-8. In current CVS gretl, when the "locale decimal
> separator" is selected, at the startup of the program you should
> see (on stderr, e.g. when started from a terminal), something like
>
>   setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "es_ES.UTF-8") returned es_ES.UTF-8
>
> That is, gretl reads the LANG setting from the environment and
> issues the instruction to set LC_NUMERIC to the same value.
>
> If you see this, but are not getting the decimal comma, then I
> think it is a broken locale setting on Kubuntu to blame. In which
> case you could try
>
> sudo localedef -i es_ES -f UTF-8 es_ES.UTF-8
>
> Allin.
> _______________________________________________

Well, I see 
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "es_ES.UTF-8") returned es_ES.UTF-8
but don't get the decimal comma.

I tried to use the command "localedef" as you suggested but all is the same.

In other applications as openoffice-calc or kcalc I am getting the decimal 
comma without any problem.



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