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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Seth,

I just tested your patch on windows and I didn't notice any issues.
Although given that my locale is en-US, I'm not sure about the
completeness of my testing.  It might be useful for someone with a
locale other the en-US to do some testing.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 6/21/2019 5:25 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> Hi Devs-
> 
> We currently have an RAII locale switch (LOCALE_IO) that swaps the
> global locale to allow floating point handling with decimal points
> instead of a commas.  Because it changes the global locale, we need to
> be very careful about allowing the user interface to update during the
> time that it is temporarily set.
> 
> The attached patch moves the locale setting into a thread-local setting,
> allowing us to use standard threading and UI updates.
> 
> There are no functionality changes in this patch.  This is merely a
> change in the calling structure that will allow future cleaning of the
> LOCALE_IO distribution in the code.
> 
> I'd greatly appreciate any windows testing.
> 
> Thanks-
> Seth
> 
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