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[Jeff Bailey]

Danny, are you setup for gnats to receive these?

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>Number:         1946
>Category:       oleo
>Synopsis:       Error while creating PostScript
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    jbailey
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   unknown
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 03 10:05:01 -0500 2000
>Cases:          
>Originator:     
>Release:        oleo-1.99.14
>Environment:
        PC, Linux , Linux, libraries glibc6 
System: Linux pc1 2.2.14 #1 Mon Mar 13 10:51:48 GMT 2000 i586 unknown
Architecture: i586

Build CFLAGS: -I/usr/dt/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2
Build CC: gcc

>Description:
        The produced PostScript file contain ',' instread of '.'.
        This is due to a bad handling of the locale.

        The input fields don4t accept the ',' character as 
        decimal point. A little test program show that the locale
        handlig work as expected.

>How-To-Repeat:
        Set the environment (locale) LC_... to de_DE print into a PostScript
        file.

>Fix:
insert in postscript.c PostScriptField():
           
           char *oldLocale = setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);
           at the beginnig and
           setlocale(LC_ALL, oldLocale);
           at the end.

        insert also #include <locale.h> at the beginning of file


        For the correct handling of input fields, I don4t have
        found the part which has to be modified.

        saving/exporting/reading/importing of files may also
        be a problem. 

Regards,

Jean-Jacqzes

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