Created attachment 616 [details] [review]
patch to use the new locale-independent glib calls and to fix one other locale problem

Besides using the locale-independent glib calls, this patch also fixes
a place where pango used "%g" but always wanted a "." for a decimal
separator.

Created attachment 617 [details] [review]
improved patch that also gets rid of a storage leak

I should note that Owen told me the "change the locale and change
back" approach used in this patch to fix the issue with %g is
incorrect because the current locale is per-program rather than
per-thread. The same problem exists today in Nautilus code. A partial
fix may be to use the GNU extensions (__newlocale, et al.) where
available.

We have g_ascii_strtod and g_ascii_dtostr now, so those
can be used for the numeric formatting.

(There is a instance of g_strtod in fonts.c that should be changed
to g_ascii_strtod, since we don't want the "guessing"
behavior of g_strtod)

Patch needs to be revisited because g_ascii_strdown now has a
different interface than it did when I wrote the patch.

There's also a PANGO_VERSOIN typo in the patch.

In case it's helpful, I'll make a new version of the patch later
today.

Updated and applied to cvs.