locale.h and gnuplot

[Jakson Aquino]

Hi,

I'll look at StatistX source code.

Best,

Jakson

 --- Andreas Beyer <beyer at imb-jena.de> escreveu: 
> 
> I think I had the same problem with StatistX. If I
> remember correctly, 
> my solution was to set the locale to the default
> C-locale before passing 
> anything to gnuplot. Afterwards I set it back to the
> previous setting.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> Bernhard Reiter schrieb:
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:37:47AM -0300, Jakson
> Aquino wrote:
> > 
> >>When trying to see a boxplot I got the following
> >>gnuplot error:
> >>
> >>Spalte fuer Variable 1: TVHOURS
> >>
> >>Erstelle gnuplot-Graphik ...
> >>
> >>
> >>0 vermutliche Ausreisser gefunden
> >>
> >>   --- Bitte mit ENTER fortfahren ... ---
> >>gnuplot> plot [0,8:5,2][9:13]
> >>'/home/jakson/stat_gpl.dat' with lines
> >>                ^
> >>         line 0: ':' or keyword 'to' expected
> >>
> >>
> >>The problem is that, in many languages (among
> them:
> >>German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese),
> the
> >>decimal separator is not a "."; it's a ",".
> However,
> >>the culprit is <locale.h>. With locale.h, the
> printf
> >>function becomes very smart. It's good to see the
> >>results of calculations printed with the correct
> >>decimal separator, but, while writing a file to
> >>gnuplot, locale.h is a problem.
> >>
> >>Another --far less important-- side effect of
> locale.h
> >>is that if we save columns in an ascii file
> running
> >>Statist in a language other than English, it will
> not
> >>be possible to open the file running Statist in
> >>English. We would have, for example, 1,30000e+01
> >>instead of 1.30000e+01. Since this side effect
> isn't
> >>properly a bug of Statist, I think that it will be
> >>enough to document it. And the solution is very
> >>simple: use some tool to replace all "," with ".".
> >>
> >>Is there any easy way of fixing the problem with
> >>gnuplot?
> > 
> > 
> > We probably need to ignore 
> > the locale settings for files and gnuplot.
> > This is possible, I only have to look up how.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
>
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