[vtkusers] wx/vtk weirdness

["Eduardo M. Suárez Santana"]

Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:47 PM, "Eduardo M. Suárez Santana"
> <esuarez at itccanarias.org> wrote:
>   
>> This looks weird to me. Spacing of vtkDICOMImageReader depends on
>> whether I use wx or not.
>>
>> Can anyone reproduce?
>>
>> It fails in vtk-5.2.1 and vtk-5.4.2 on linux, python-2.6.2 and wxpython-2.8.10.1
>>     
>
> DICOMParser is using internally sscanf to decode the spacing. It will
> fails to work when LC_NUMERIC is not compatible with "C" style. I
> believe by default GTK (underlying implementation of wx on linux) sets
> the LC_NUMERIC corresponding to your locales.
>
> HTH
>   
Rethinking.

Is not a bug if the correct behaviour depends on setting an unrelated
variable (DICOM - LC_NUMERIC)?