From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: jaakov@ro.ru
Subject: Re: xcalc comma doesn't work properly under de_DE.UTF-8
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 15:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52ED0DA2.10309@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391261213.884324.4397.6260@mail.rambler.ru>
On 01/02/2014 13:26, jaakov jaakov wrote:
> Package: xcalc
> Version: 1.0.5
>
> Problem: Input digits after the decimal separator (comma in German) are
> ignored for computation.
> Steps to reproduce:
> A. Make sure that the LANG shell variable is set to "de_DE.UTF-8" .
> B. Start xcalc from the shell.
> C. Using mouse, press the following screen buttons in the xcalc window:
> 1
> .
> 1
> x^2
> D. Observe that the result is 1, which is wrong, since the square of 1.1 is 1.21.
>
> If in step A the LANG would be set to, say, "en", the result would be a
> correct 1.21.
> If in step A we keep the German locale but in step C we would press pi, and
> then x^2, the after-dot-digits would be considered again.
>
> Please fix the bug!
This behaviour appears to be due a problem with cygwin's sscanf() in the
de_DE.UTF-8 locale, apparently already fixed in the latest snapshot. See [1].
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00294.html
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2014-02-01 13:26 jaakov jaakov
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