Re: [Bug-gnubg] Locale and decimal point

[Rod Roark]

On Sunday 01 February 2004 10:30 am, Øystein Johansen wrote:
> Rod Roark wrote:
> 
> | Could someone tell me what determines whether GnuBG uses a
> | comma or a period as the decimal point character?  Is this a
> | compile-time or runtime setting, and which setting?
> |
> | If it matters I am concerned only with the CLI.
> 
> At a windows machine it's determined by the "Regional and Languages
> Options" in the control panel. There is probably something similar in
> Linux/KDE. (Guessing you're using KDE, since you're mailing from KMail.)

OK, thanks.  For Linux it looks like

  export LC_ALL=something

(where the 'something' is like 'C' or 'en_US' or 'da_DK') at
the bash prompt will do it.

-- Rod