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

[Daniel Morissette]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

And once again as was pointed a few times in this thread, it would not 
be sufficient to replace all atof() and printf()-related calls in 
MapServer: all support libs would need to be reviewed and possibly 
modified, we may never get to the end of this.

OTOH changing the locale globally may have major side-effects for 
scripting environments... I don't think I have a solution, but I just 
wanted to point out that replacing atof() is not the solution either.

Daniel
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