Latest gnustep releases (Foundation and AppKit)

[Andreas Heppel]

Hi!
I just installed the latest releases (1.5.2 for base and make, 0.8.5 for gui 
and back) and experience some strange behaviour.
One thing is that some strings seem to be clipped in the GUI, regardless of 
the application. I am using the German locales and I suspect that the new 
text system does not handle the sizes of the translated strings correctly. I 
have not checkd the code so far, but comparing the original English strings 
with their German translations I see that they are usually shorter (the 
English ones). Can someone who knows the text system check this, please? 
Apart from that I really like it. Editing mails in GNUMail is much more fun 
now :)
Another thing that really estranges me is the behaviour of sscanf. I don't 
know how this is related to GNUstep, but what I experience after having 
updated GNUstep is the following:
sscanf(somestring, "%f %f %f", &r, %g, %b) works only if the floats in the 
string use a _comma_ as decimal separator (which is the German way to write 
floats, e.g. 0,7 instead of 0.7). It used to be a decimal _point_. I think 
sscanf is a C library function and thus not related to GNUstep. Thus, the 
behaviour should remain the same all the time. But maybe I am wrong. Can 
someone please shed a light on this?

Cheers,
Andreas

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