[vtkusers] wx/vtk weirdness

[Francois Bertel]

note: it is necessary to duplicate the return value of setlocale() as
it can be a pointer to a static string.

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Francois Bertel
<francois.bertel at kitware.com> wrote:
> Something like that:
>
> // save the current locale
>  prev_locale = setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, NULL);
>  prev_locale = dupstring(setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, NULL));
> setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "POSIX");
>
> <reader code here>
>
> // Restore locale
> setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, prev_locale);
> if(prev_locale)
> {
>  setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, prev_locale);
> }
>
> ref: http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2003/msg00210.html
>
> I don't think bug 5891 is relevant as it elimitates the use of
> interpretation of text into numerical values.
> Patch in bug 1431 was using the selocale() function (as above).
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Mathieu Malaterre
> <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
>> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> The C functions as I remember set the locale globally which can also cause
>>> unexpected bugs if a library changes this internally.
>>
>> Ah ! That answer my question :)
>>
>> Thx
>> --
>> Mathieu
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