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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Desperate in need of help: Very very weird problem with sscanf
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-08-20 21:05:39
Message-ID: 200908202305.52619.thiago () kde ! org
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Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> The problem is that the C library has no such locale-independent
>> function. Even strtod/strtof are dependent.
>
>How does, say, Inkscape read numbers from an svg, if that is the case?
>Do they have their own strtod-or-similar? (Presumably, however they
>handle it would be similar to how it should be fixed in this instance.)

Do what everyone else does: roll out their own locale-independent copy of 
strtod (see qstrtod in src/corelib/tools/qlocale.cpp, and 
JavaScriptCore/wtf/dtoa.cpp in WebKit).

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