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Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2346 Location: Queensland

From the few different languages I've tried with the wary repo version, it seems gMeasures is only correct in English.

BarryK · Posted: Fri 06 Mar 2015, 21:11 Post subject:

I am testing robwoj44's gmeasures

This converts kilograms to pounds correctly;
# LANG=C ./gmeasures

Interesting this also correct (German uses the comma):
# LANG=de_DE ./gmeasures

But this gives the error reported by musher0:
# LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 ./gmeasures
also:
# LANG=de_DE.utf8 ./gmeasures

I will ask robwoj44 about it.

musher0 · Posted: Fri 06 Mar 2015, 21:29 Post subject:

musher0 · Posted: Fri 06 Mar 2015, 22:00 Post subject:

Hello, all.

As Mr. Kauler mentioned, gmeasures seems to be allergic to utf8...

It doesn't care if LANG=en_CA or LANG=fr_CA, but it can't tolerate utf8!!!

Maybe the gtk-spin-button is making it dizzy!!!

All in the interest of science... Smile

BFN.

musher0

musher0 · Posted: Fri 06 Mar 2015, 23:08 Post subject:

Hello, all.

Eureka! This is how to get gmeasures to show proper decimals in a
localized UTF-8 environment !

Create a new file gmeasures.sh in /usr/bin and make it executable.
Copy the following code from here and paste it in the new script. Save.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 07 Mar 2015, 04:22 Post subject:

musher0,
No, that does not fix it.

I realised, soon after my last post, that I had made a mistake.

The problem is not UTF-8.

earlier I reported that this works, running robwoj44's binary:

# LANG=de_DE ./gmeasures

However, it doesn't. If there is no folder /usr/lib/locale/de_DE, then gmeasures falls back to using C locale.

So, it seems to have worked, but not really.

If you run quicksetup and choose de_DE, and untick the UTF-8 checkbox, then /usr/lib/locale/de_DE gets created.

Now run "LANG=de_DE ./gmeasures" and it doesn't work.

The C code needs to be fixed. Maybe robwoj44 will do that, I have informed him of the problem.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 07 Mar 2015, 05:03 Post subject:

OK, I think that I have the solution.

The "gmeasureswrapper" script just needs this:

#!/bin/sh
LC_NUMERIC=C gmeasures

I am using robwoj44's binary.

I tried to put this into the C code, using setlocale(), but it doesn't work. So resorted to the above wrapper.

musher0 · Posted: Sat 07 Mar 2015, 10:29 Post subject:

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and solutions about this problem, Barry.

It is true that the problem is not really one of localization by language,
but rather of the use of global standards: ISO vs "Imperial", for ex.
It's independent of linguistic maps.

I have some trouble understanding your argument on the impact of
existent or non-existent locale folders on decimals in the gmeasures
application. I'm sure I'll get there. The important thing is that a couple of
workarounds can now be offered to the user.

Perhaps robwoj44 could drop the euro<>guilder conversion altogether.
Currency rates change daily and perhaps should not be confused with
units conversions that are based on scientific constants. Just a thought.

The web is really well adapted to currency activity:
http://www.ask.com/web?qsrc=1&o=0&l=dir&q=money+exchange&qo=serpSearchTopBox

As I said earlier, I don't want to bang my head on this gmeasures any
longer. I have opted to use Puppy's good old pConvert for units, and
XE.com or a similar site if I ever need to know a daily exchange rate.

Best regards.

musher0

BarryK · Posted: Sat 07 Mar 2015, 21:16 Post subject:

musher0 · Posted: Sun 08 Mar 2015, 00:46 Post subject:

Sorry, wrong thread.

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