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RE: Re: xcalc comma doesn't work properly under de_DE.UTF-8
- From: "jaakov jaakov" <jaakov at ro dot ru>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 22:40:07 +0400
- Subject: RE: Re: xcalc comma doesn't work properly under de_DE.UTF-8
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- Reply-to: "jaakov jaakov" <jaakov at ro dot ru>
> Package: xcalc
> Version: 1.0.5
>
> Problem: Input digits after the decimal separator (comma in German) are
> ignored for computation.
> ...
This behaviour appears to be due a problem with cygwin's sscanf() in the
de_DE.UTF-8 locale, apparently already fixed in the latest snapshot. See [1].
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00294.html
Thank you, Jon. Indeed, my relatively recent cygwin (as of today) does not have this patch yet. Let us wait until the snapshot gets released.
Best,
Jaakov.
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