Re: [Gretl-devel] decimal point (2)
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 22:43:32 Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:
> > I repeated your steps, and run the suggested commands, obtaining the
> > following...
>
> I have made a few changes in CVS after studying the output you
> sent.
>
> I'm still sowewhat baffled by Ubuntu's handling of locales, but
> maybe the changes will help.
Allin, I reinstalled Gretl from the CVS and repeated again the steps you
mentioned in your message some days ago, and run the suggested commands.
I obtained the following...
Thanks.
In an earlier message you reported that your LANG setting was
es_ES.UTF-8. In current CVS gretl, when the "locale decimal
separator" is selected, at the startup of the program you should
see (on stderr, e.g. when started from a terminal), something like
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "es_ES.UTF-8") returned es_ES.UTF-8
That is, gretl reads the LANG setting from the environment and
issues the instruction to set LC_NUMERIC to the same value.
If you see this, but are not getting the decimal comma, then I
think it is a broken locale setting on Kubuntu to blame. In which
case you could try
sudo localedef -i es_ES -f UTF-8 es_ES.UTF-8
Allin.