[Gambas-user] Format$ with different LANG

[Doriano Blengino]

Ricardo Díaz Martín ha scritto:
> I confirm I'm have got the same problem in Spanish configuration. For
> decimals we use "," (coma) and gambas returns "," (coma - it's ok) but for
> milliar we use "." (point) and gambas returns " " (blank). All the rest of
> locale data (date, time and currency are fine)
> ...
>>>>> ? Format$(Val("14555888") / 1000, "#,###.000")
>>>>> 14,555.888
>>>>>
>>>>> ...this is OK
>>>>>
>>>>> LANG="es_ES.utf8" and for LANG="it_IT.utf8"
>>>>>
>>>>> ? Format$(Val("14555888") / 1000, "#,###.000")
>>>>> 14 555,888
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a space  where should be a . but I can cope with it
>>>>>
>>>>> For LANG="ru_RU.utf8"
>>>>>
>>>>> ? Format$(Val("14555888") / 1000, "#,###.000")
>>>>> 14??555,888
>>>>>
>>>>>   where ?? are 3F3F . These are not recognised as UTF-8 valid
>>>>> characters.
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>> I confirm that number formatting (and perhaps dates too - can't remember
>>> well) don't work as expected in italian locale (tried on Debian systems
>>> ...
>>>       
>> Gambas takes the data from the standard glib functions. So I think, but I
>> can
>> be wrong, that the glibc locale data may be wrong. I know that for sure
>> because the thousand separator returned for French is false. I added an
>> hack
>> in Gambas to fix that, but if other locales have incorrect data too, a
>> better
>> solution must be found.
>>
>> I will check (again) what the interpreter does. At the same time, it would
>> be
>> cool if some people can check the locale data returned by Gambas for their
>> own
>> language (mainly date, time and thousand separator, and currency
>> characters)
>> and tell me what is wrong. I know French and US locale only!
>>
>> Regards,
>>     
Pino Zollo let me know that there is probably an error in 
/usr/share/i18n/locales/it_IT.utf8

-------
LC_NUMERIC
decimal_point             "<U002C>"
thousands_sep             ""             <---------- (empty string, not SPACE)
grouping                  0;0
END LC_NUMERIC
--------------

I do not have that file, but instead other two, but with the same error. 
Perhaps we can contact the author,
It seems strange to me that a danish guy (the author of that file is 
danish) made the same mistake on spanish, italian, french (and probably 
all the rest of Europe...) which, I think, share the same conventions 
about numbers; so someone who knows glibc better than me could verify, 
before contact him.
I will try to correct it_IT file and verify, just for curiosity, but if 
someone else knows the matter better, please let me know...

Another question is this. I was misguided by the fact that KDE has its 
own locale management: it lets you to change locale settings, and I 
played with those settings to investigate - but gambas does not seem to 
use them. Should gambas use KDE settings when using QT, or when using 
the GUI switcher?

Regards,

-- 
Doriano Blengino

"Listen twice before you speak.
This is why we have two ears, but only one mouth."