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[jean-pierre charras <jean-pierre.charras@...>]

Milan Horák a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On kicad.1301.cz are first script compiled svn snapshots set 
> (Linux/Windows/source).
Milan,
Binaries compiled under linux for windows have a big issue:
This is related to the notation for decimal separator for floatting numbers:

In some languages (French, German), the separator is a comma.
So 1.0 is printed 1,0

Here is the issue:

In dialogs floating numbers are printed 1.0 (as in English, this is an 
error) by the print function, but expected 1,0 by the atof (ascii to 
float) conversion function (as it does in French)
So a value shown 0.5 in a dialog box is converted from ascii notation to 0 :
the atof function expects the number 0,5, and stops its conversion at 
the first illegal char (the point)
(the result is all numeric parameters are set to 0 (truncated to the 
integer value, in fact) when exiting from the dialog box, for the 
currently edited item)
Always using . or , is correct, but using . for some functions and , for 
others is a serious problem.

This seems an mismatch between functions like printf and functions like 
scanf.
Because these functions are part of wxWidgets (or C libs) this bug is an 
issue, and make kicad unusable in some countries
So binaries compiled under kicad are unusable.

This is a problem already reported on kicad bug tracker , but i was 
until now not able to see it. (and now it is confirmed)

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