[Gretl-devel] Re: intended effect of 'set force_decpoint off' ?
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 6:25 AM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Am 14.08.2024 um 23:49 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
> I can confirm this (bad, unintended) behavior, but it's limited to the
> combination of Windows + you're operating in a locale that specifies
> the decimal comma by default, but choose to use the decimal dot. On
> Linux it works as intended: both "set force_decpoint on" and "set
> force_decpoint off" do nothing if the decimal dot is already selected,
> either because it's native to the locale or the user has registered a
> preference for the dot. Locale issues are difficult in Windows due to
> their non-standard legacy specification. However it ought to be
> possible to fix this (I hope).
>
Thanks, Allin, that's good to hear, because this special case (not using
the local separator) is probably not super-common.
Ah, actually I was wrong about Linux. I tested by setting LANG in the
environment and there wasn't a problem, but if I use gretl's built-in
language selection mechanism I get the same wrong behavior that I saw
on Windows. However, if the problem is not Windows-specific it should
be easier to solve.
Allin