In the locales package, the file en_ZA (for South Africa) gives a dot '.' as decimal point. However, the Qt library gives a comma ',' as decimal point. This creates problems when a Qt program is trying to communicate with a non Qt program since the decimal point is not the same, numbers are not correctly recognized.
After doing some searching, Qt (see http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/QtLocales) takes its locale information from cldr.unicode.org:
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/tags/release-2-0-1/posix/en_ZA.UTF-8.src
This page gives a comma as decimal separator. So does Wikipedia (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark - note that a footnote seems to indicate that this may be a recent official decision).
Having 2 different definitions for the decimal point on the same system can only lead to problems.
Using locales 2.13+git20110622-2, and qt 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu8
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: locales 2.13+git20110622-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia blackmagic
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 8 02:43:03 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: langpack-locales
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-18 (20 days ago)
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In the locales package, the file en_ZA (for South Africa) gives a dot '.' as decimal point. However, the Qt library gives a comma ',' as decimal point. This creates problems when a Qt program is trying to communicate with a non Qt program since the decimal point is not the same, numbers are not correctly recognized.
After doing some searching, Qt (see http://
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This page gives a comma as decimal separator. So does Wikipedia (see http://
Having 2 different definitions for the decimal point on the same system can only lead to problems.
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