From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40699 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Date with three-letter month Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:22:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4810EC0E.1030407@wxs.nl> References: <20080424174519.GA10745@gaston.couberia.bzh> <4810D313.7090204@wxs.nl> <20080424185321.GA16452@gaston.couberia.bzh> <20080424192125.GY14428@phare.normalesup.org> <4810E5C3.1080503@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209070496 735 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2008 20:54:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:54:56 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 24 22:55:30 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jp8TY-0006Hq-JN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:55:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9241B1FB4E; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:54:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13164-01; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:54:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B831FC06; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:24:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D29D31FB89 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:24:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10715-01-10 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:23:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F20A1FC06 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:23:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 1728-1840426 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:23:01 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <4810E5C3.1080503@elvenkind.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.104 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40699 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________