Wrong number formatting with German locale

[Erik Heinz]

Hi,

when working under a German locale setting (e.g. LANG=de_DE.UTF-8), which I normally do, pcb generates invalid pcb files.

If components include ElementArc definitions, the degree values are formatted with a comma instead of a dot as decimal separator. This is the usual German convention for decimal number formatting, but in this particular case, it is wrong behaviour. As a result, pcb cannot read the file anymore.

This has been tested with version 4.2.2.

For the moment, I work around the problem by setting locale to "C".

Best regards,
Erik

[Bert Timmerman (bert-timmerman)]

Hi Erik,

Could you please attach a sample file (.pcb and .fp) which presents the bug ?

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

[Erik Heinz (erikheinz)]

Here it is.

I admit that my version pf pcb is self-compiled on a homegrown flavor of Linux. So it might be a compile-time issue. I suspect the problem is caused by using sprintf or similar functions that evaluate the LC_NUMERIC locale.

Best regards,
Erik