[Insight-developers] ITK and I18N

[Luis Ibanez]

Bill,

Creating the Wiki page for following up
this discussion is a great idea.

I like the approach that you and Tom are suggesting,
of creating a class (or classes) that will manage these
conversions, and in this way centralizing the behavior
across the toolkit.


     Luis


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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Recent activity on the vtk users mailing list has highlighted the
> vulnerability that vtk and itk have to internationalization (i18n)
> software engineering issues. I ran an experiment where I changed the
> default locale to "french" in the itkTestMain.h test driver. In
> Testing/Code/IO 49 of 204 tests failed. The failures all had to do
> with the representation of floating point numbers. The "french" locale
> (and many others) use "," as a decimal point rather than ".".
>
> I have some solutions but have not checked in the changes yet. I want
> to bring this to the attention of itk developers so that we can come
> up with a proper solution.
>
> BTW, Tom Vercauteren has been workling on another i18n issue regarding
> file names.
>
> I have started a wiki page:
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Policy_and_Procedures_for_Internationalization
> to describe the i18n issue with the hops that we can produce policies
> and procedures for making itk a more robust, international toolkit.
>
> Let's continue the discussion on this mailing list.
>
> Bill
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