Locale is es-AR. I use gretl (and most software) in english because it's easier to use the documentation without having to mentally translate everything between the refereence files/a post on the list and the interface.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, [ISO-8859-1] Patricio Cuarón wrote:

> I was writing a script on gretl (CVS version, couple of days old).
> I get the following
>
> gretl version 1.8.6cvs
> Current session: 2010-01-11 17:56
> ? scalar testdot = 0.1
> Replaced scalar testdot = 0

What platform and what LANG setting?  It looks odd that you have
the program running in English yet are using ',' as decimal
separator.

I can't reproduce the error, running gretl in various languages.
The intended behavior, which I'm seeing here, is that the decimal
character must always be '.' in script input,

 

the script I pasted in the previous email shows that the '0.1' input in the script is interpreted as zero by gretl unless the set force_decpoint on is used.

 

but the output will
respect the locale decimal character, if that option is chosen
under Preferences.

Allin Cottrell

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