Re: Latest gnustep releases (Foundation and AppKit)

[Adam Fedor]

On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 03:54 AM, Andreas Heppel wrote:
> Another thing that really estranges me is the behaviour of sscanf. I 
> don't know how this is related to GNUstep, but what I experience after 
> having updated GNUstep is the following:
> sscanf(somestring, "%f %f %f", &r, %g, %b) works only if the floats in 
> the string use a _comma_ as decimal separator (which is the German way 
> to write floats, e.g. 0,7 instead of 0.7). It used to be a decimal 
> _point_. I think sscanf is a C library function and thus not related 
> to GNUstep. Thus, the behaviour should remain the same all the time. 
> But maybe I am wrong. Can someone please shed a light on this?

GNUstep set's the locale when it starts up, so that processing is in 
the user's local language (and that affects all functions in the glibc 
library). Perhaps that's not right though? Perhaps only the higher 
level NSString parsing should do that and not the lower level 
programmer interface?