kicker applet 'arythmetic evaluator' has problem with national decimal symbol

[P]

This was working right under kde 3.5.1. In kde 3.5.2 dapper ii kicker-applets 3.5.2-0ubuntu1

I have a problem when using the applet that does arithmetic evaluation.

I am in french language :
$ locale
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

but entering number with french decimal point (.) triggers a syntax error in the applet. It works only when using the comma (,).

but the results are given with the right decimal points (.)

example :
7*45.7 ENTER ==> syntax error
7*45,7 ENTER ==> 319.9 (notice the . which is right)
319.9*2 ENTER ==> syntax error

I tried after verifying that KDE local are rightly set to french. But defaults for this local is ',' as decimal point.
Then I changed decimal point to '.' and restarted KDE.
Result is the same syntax error when using arythmetic expression using '.' as decimal symbol.

[P (p92)]

still true as of recent dapper 20060529

[P (p92)]

still true on edgy beta1

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Is this still an issue? Have you tried any later versions?

[P (p92)]

still the same error with :

ii kdeaddons 3.5.6-0ubuntu1~edgy

[magic- (olaf-ippisch)]

I had the same problem and finally found out that it was a problem of different locale settings in kde and basic settings.
While I had changed the number format in KDE to use decimal points, the locale number format LC_NUMBER was still "de_DE.UTF-8. Adding the line

LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"

to /etc/default/locale fixed the problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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