From: Klaus Stein <steink@...>
Date: 2003-02-07T21:16:45+09:00
Subject: Gtk and locale

I found irb behaving weird with german locale and gtk. It seems to me the
gtk module somehow messes up the parser:

/tmp >echo $LANG
de_DE
/tmp >irb
irb(main):001:0> 2.5*3
7.5                                 # everything's normal
irb(main):002:0> require "gtk"      # fetch gtk
true
irb(main):003:0> 2.5*3              # same as above
6,0                                 # ??? (mind the , !)
irb(main):004:0> "7.5".to_f         # same effect
7,0
irb(main):005:0> "7,5".to_f         # oh, this works?
7,5
irb(main):006:0> 7,5                # but this doesn't
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):6: parse error
	from (irb):6
/tmp >irb -v
irb 0.7.4(01/05/08)
/tmp >ruby -v
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-19) [i386-linux]
(all packages are debs from debian linux)

In Germany the decimal point in fact is a comma. But this shouldn't change
the behaviour of a programming language (and it doesn't until gtk is used).
[ I remember netscape had a similar problem with postscript and locale ]

Is this a bug or do i have to change some settings (but where?)

Thanx a lot,

Stony
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