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--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jean-pierre charras - INPG
<jean-pierre.charras@...> wrote:
>
> cfdev@... a écrit :
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > happy to joint the kicad dev group.
> > I have compiled kicad stable on windowXP with sucessfull :D
> >
> > I'm french and for the correct value for size, position.. are the
> > decimal separator ',' not the '.'.
> >
> > When I compile kicad and run in french langage, the decimal separator
> > is '.' :(
> >
> > why ? it's an directive of compilation ?
> >
> why ? je ne sais pas! et cela marche très bien sur ma machine.
> 
> Have you the same problem with the stable, official version of kicad.
> 

No, with the official compilation stable (20080825c), I haven't this
problem :/


> Internationalization is fully handled by wxWidgets and the DOS
libraries.
> There is no directive to do that, just activate locales in source code.
> floating point notation is not exactly like internationalization,
> but because of this wxWidgets uses and activates locales (that are 
> responsible for locales notations like time, money, floating point 
> notations..)
> Note wxWidgets uses the default locale. this means if your XP
version is 
> a french version, the french locale is used by default
> See also if in kicad, Preferences->Language is set to default (or
french)
> (but if not, your G.U.I. language will be also in english, not in
french).

On default and french, I have the same problem...


> 
> Note, some users have reported floating point problems (like displayed 
> as , but the number is not understand as floating point ) with some 
> compiled unstable versions of kicad on sourceforge.
> But i never saw this with my compiled version (using gcc, any versions, 
> compiled under XP, for windows, and CentOS or Kunbuntu for linux)
> 

I wrote my process compilation at
http://cfdev.org/doku.php?id=electronic:kicad:compilation	
I may be a mistake ...?

> 
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