Proposing to call setlocale( LC_ALL, "C" ) in msSetup()

[Frank Warmerdam]

Szekeres Tamás wrote:
> I'm not sure if this problem is restricted to the float number conversion, 
> so replacing atof, strtod etc. to the locale independent 
> implementations would be great, but i don't think if it is enough.
> And we should also take the subsequent libraries into consideration 
> with the locale dependency stuff. 

Tamas,

I would note we have *alot* of code doing printf style output of XML,
GML, etc using the default numeric formatting.  It would be quite a job
to replace all that.  Much harder than replacing atof() calls for instance.

Best regards,
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