Re: GNUstep on a fresh Debian (S1-E4)

[Bertrand Dekoninck]

Le 08/03/2016 18:18, Richard Frith-Macdonald a écrit :
> > I was suspecting the same and dug out my old PowerBook, but in the end it turns 
> > out that it's really a locale issue. The test program uses code like
> >   n1 = [NSDecimalNumber decimalNumberWithString: @"0.009"];
> > to define the decimal numbers. According to Apple's documentation this method 
> > works with an unspecified locale, so the code works as long as this default 
> > locale is English (or any other locale that uses a '.' as decimal separator), 
> > but it breaks as soon as you are in a locale where '.' is not the decimal 
> > separator (in my case German, where ',' is the decimal separator). I guess, the 
> > test needs to be changed to use a fixed locale. On the other hand, on OS X with 
> > Apple's foundation the test seems to work for me even though my default locale 
> > is set to German. Perhaps while the default locale used by 
> > -decimalNumberWithString: is unspecified according to Apple's documentation 
> > they really use a fixed locale regardless of the user's locale nevertheless?
>
> Thanks ... I changed the test to explicitly use [NSLocale systemLocale] ... I 
> hope that fixes it.
> I looked at the Apple documentation, and to me it reads like they *should* be 
> using the German locale.
Applied, compiled, tested...

"bertrand@Gromac:~/Bureau/gnustep_svn/modules/core/base/Tests/base/NSNumber$ 
gnustep-tests test02.m
--- Running tests in . ---

      5 Passed tests

All OK!"

and passed !

Thanks.
Bertrand