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Re: locale "de_DE.UTF-8", fscanf problem?


On Dec 17 17:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 17 11:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Dec 17 10:09, Tilman Kuepper wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > There seems to be an "unbalance" with fprintf and fscanf when using
> > > the "de_DE.UTF-8" locale.
> > > 
> > > The following program correctly writes "2,5" (decimal comma) to a
> > > file. But reading with fscanf fails - the decimal comma is treated
> > > as "end of number".
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Tilman
> > > 
> > > --------------
> > > [...testcase...]
> > 
> > Weird.  I was pretty sure that scanf is doing the right thing, but
> > apparently it doesn't.  Thanks a lot for the testcase, I'll have a look
> > into this issue.
> 
> A generic solution for this problem is much more complex than I
> anticipated.  I'll be looking into getting this into the next Cygwin
> release, but it will take at least a couple of days to get this right,
> so don't hold your breath for testing a fix within... uhm... the year
> 2013, I guess.

I applied a newlib patch today.  Please give the next developer snapshot
from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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