[vtkusers] wx/vtk weirdness

[Bill Lorensen]

Looks like we have some work to do in both itk and vtk.

Bill

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Francois Bertel
<francois.bertel at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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
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