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Bug 116568 - locale-specific decimal in xrdb's Xft.dpi
locale-specific decimal in xrdb's Xft.dpi
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] settings-daemon
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-02 21:18 UTC by Egmont Koblinger
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Egmont Koblinger 2003-07-02 21:18:08 UTC 
After logging in into Gnome (via gdm) xrdb -query shows this (amongst other lines):
Xft.dpi:        96,000000
I have LANG=hu_HU and in Hungarian the decimal separator is the comma (as in many other European languages),
so printf puts a comma for %f but scanf doesn't understand it.
If I set LANG=en_US, the value will be 96.000000.
I don't know where this value is used or if it is used at all,
but as many applications using many different languages
can connect to the same X server, I believe it is a bug.
Tested with 2.2.1, looking at the source
it seems to me that 2.3.3 is buggy too.
In gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-xsettings.c
locale (LC_NUMERIC ???) should be temporarily set to C.
Comment 1 Jody Goldberg 2003-07-02 21:31:17 UTC 
good thought.
done.