GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 115830
Decimal numbers don't display correctly
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
When a number with a decimal in entered in a cell (exemple 1.1234), and after you format the cell to be "number " it display the number incorrectly (exemple: number with letters in it). I have try version 1.0.x and 1.1.19 and i have the same problem. I have open a bug on bugzilla.gentoo.org that you can found here : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19612
This is quite weird. To rule out anything compiler related (as suggested by the gentoo log), could you try a totally fresh build with no -march and no optimization.
According to the gentoo report you were using locale fr_FR. It is known that 1.1.19 does not work correctly with locales whose decimal separator is a comma if cups is also installed. This is bug 115409 which is fixed in cvs. Do you happen to run cups as your printing system?
I probably should be clearer: In de_DE (which like fr_FR uses , as a separator) and with cups as a printing system, the locale infprmation used to get confused. THere were various in carnations of this bug. In 1.1.19 I would see the same effect you are seeing. In the GENTOO report you state that this also happened under `C'. Thisis strange. DOes it happen for you under `C' with completely new files or are those files with content created under `fr_FR'?
i have recompiled with LC_ALL="C" and no optimisation for compilation and the same problem occur in any language. I also use CUPS for printing system. I have an other computer wth Gentoo and gnumeric works well, but i use lprng as printing system.
Andreas: this does indeed look like the cups bug. If you agree based on Eric's last comment, please close this report. Eric: current gnumeric cvs works around this bug.
Well, teh libcups problem shouldn't show itself unless the languages you use use `,' as a separator. But this does sound very much like that problem. I am closing this bug since I feel that it has been fixed. IIf the bug is still around in 1.1 20 when it will be relased or later, please reopen this bug or file a new one. It is really important that we get those bugs stamped out. Especially those that only occur under some strange set of circumstances.