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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Date with three-letter month
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:22:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4810EC0E.1030407@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4810E5C3.1080503@elvenkind.com>

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>>> Indeed, I've already seen that: when setting the locale to fr_FR.utf8,
>>> without resetting it to C just after the tex.print(), then I get this
>>> error:
>>> !luaTeX error (file /opt/TeX-live/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman12-regular.otf): Parsing CFF DICT failed. (error=-1)
>>>  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>>   Interesting :-)  I suppose some of the strings are localized (like,
>> decimal points being replaced by decimal commas).  I already had that
>> when writing a small script to output PDF by hand.
> 
> Just about all string-to|from-float C functions (like strtod, scanf,
> atof, printf) and even the string-to|from-integer ones (strtol, scanf),
> are automatically influenced by the locale.  The same is true for all
> tests like isspace() and isalpha(). It is intended to be helpful,
> but as a programmer I simply hate it.

why not completely remove locatel then ... probably also faster

btw, nilling the locale is done in mkiv:

    os.setlocale(nil,nil) -- useless feature and even dangerous in luatex

one of the first lines of lua i wrote -)

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-24 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-24 13:15 richard.stephens
2008-04-24 14:04 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-04-24 17:45 ` Peter Münster
2008-04-24 18:36   ` Hans Hagen
2008-04-24 18:53     ` Peter Münster
2008-04-24 19:21       ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-04-24 19:55         ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-04-24 20:22           ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2008-04-24 21:00             ` Arthur Reutenauer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-25  9:11 richard.stephens
2008-04-24 15:38 richard.stephens
2008-04-23 15:03 richard.stephens
2008-04-23 16:10 ` Taco Hoekwater

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