gdal from within Thuban: strange in German (Re: thuban-1.1.0-4.exe)

[Didrik Pinte]

Bernhard Reiter a écrit :
> I have found something!
>
> gdal behaves faulty when called within Thuban.
>
> My hypothesis now is: 
> 	Gdal that is not save to the C-library behaving differently.
> 	within different locales in Windows.
>
> When I set the behaviour of Windows to English (Great Britian),
> at two places in the system control and reboot.
> Now it works!
>
> My GNU/Linux version with Gdal 1.3.1.0 does not show this behaviour.
> We could look for any setlocale calls within Thuban, its libraries and gdal.
> Maybe the wrapper should make sure the locale is "C" when calling 
> gdal functions.
>
> Didrik,
> maybe can you set your locales in Windows to German /Deutsch,
> you should also see it fails. This is interesting because then we 
> both can work on the fix.


Ok, i've changed my localisation to Germany everywhere I could find it 
in the Windows configuration :

Then opening the raster sample session :


ERROR 6: Failed to initialize PROJ.4 with `+proj=tmerc +lat_0=-1,#IND 
+lon_0=-1,
#IND +k=0,999600 +x_0=500000 +y_0=0 +a=6378206 +b=6356583 +units=m 
+no_defs '.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\thubanbuild\Thuban-1.1.0\Thuban\UI\renderer.py", line 138, in 
project
ed_raster_layer
    options)
IOError: Error creating destination image for projecting 
C:\thubanbuild\Thuban-1
.1.0\Data\iceland\island.tif

Bug identified ;-)

Thank you Bernhard

Didrik