[Paraview] STL Reader Bug Fix

[Robert Maynard]

Hi,

I would recommend that you create a bug report mentioning the issues with
locality in the reader at www.paraview.org/Bug. If you have a patch that
also fixes the problem I will try to get it in for the next ParaView
release.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Jacques Papper <jacques.papper at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> in the vtkSTLReader.C you use the fscanf method for parsing.
> The problem is that on operating systems where the decimal point is a comma
> instead of a point, this messes up everything as the STL format itself is
> not country dependant..
> I think it would be best to enforce the locale for the fscanf in order for
> VTK / ParaView to be able to load STLs in different country OS.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best,
> Jacques
>
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Robert Maynard
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