What happened to the profile?

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 11:39 -0300, Tomaz Canabrava wrote:

>         > It replaces atof by atof_l which takes an additional locale
>         argument
>         > where I force feed it en_US. If this is considered to be the
>         way to go,
>         > this locale for numeric values should be allocated once and
>         for all in
>         > some startup code (where?) and not every time we have to
>         parse a number
>         > in an xml file as it is now.
>         
>         That seems like a reasonable approach.
>         
>         Except that atof_l doesn't appear to exist on Linux. Some
>         googling seems
>         to imply that this is a BSD-ism that hasn't made its way to
>         Linux. So
>         back to square 1...
>         
>         Thiago - I'm sure there is this brilliant easy to use Qt
>         function that
>         will solve all our problems, correct?
> 
> 
> From the Qt docs, on QString.toDouble() 
> 
> 
> This function tries to interpret the string according to the current
> locale. The current locale is determined from the system at
> application startup and can be changed by
> calling QLocale::setDefault(). If the string cannot be interpreted
> according to the current locale, this function falls back on the "C"
> locale. 
> 
So what does it do with a string of "1.50m" if the locale is de_DE ?

I guess I can test that easily :-)

(but my problem is the definition of "cannot be interpreted"... I'd much
rather want a function that I can tell "USE C LOCALE")

/D