Re: NSDecimalSeparator

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 11.05.2010 um 23:09 schrieb Andreas Höschler:

> Hi Fred,
>
> > > > I have set up a new system (Solaris/GNustep). Users want numbers  
> > > > to be
> > > > formated with , for the decimal separator and I again have no  
> > > > clue how
> > > > and where to set that. I have followed the trace up to
> > > >
> > > >      NSScanner::locale
> > > >       loc = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults]
> > > > dictionaryRepresentation];
> > > >
> > > > loc containing a corresponding value for the key  
> > > > NSDecimalSeparator. I
> > > > have just not found out how this is deternimed and set? Which unix
> > > > environment variables is GNUstep bas echecking to set a default for
> > > > this key?
> > >
> > > Found it, at least a solution I can live with.
> > >
> > >     defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDecimalSeparator ","
> >
> > On systems that have locale.h installed we use localeconv() to get  
> > this
> > information. Please see GSLocale.m for details.
>
>   lconv = localeconv();
>   if (lconv->decimal_point)
>     {
>       [dict setObject: [NSString stringWithUTF8String: lconv- 
> >decimal_point]
>                forKey: NSDecimalSeparator];
>     }
>
>    man localeconv()
>
> Thanks a lot! Still trying to find the required setting for /etc/ 
> profile or whatever config file on Solaris to set this system wide.

System wide?

At least on Mac OS X this is a setting to be made per user. It's  
perfectly reasonable to imagine having several users with different  
locale settings on the same machine.

> I had this running on one machine but I had to reinstall the box  
> and haven't documented this configuration detail! :-(
>
> Anyone with Solaris/GNustep experience?

That would be you ;-)

> Thanks,
>
>  Andreas

cheers,

        Lars