Re: sscanf locale on MacOS X

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Jul-2012, marco atzeri wrote:

| On 7/28/2012 4:42 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
| > Pascal,
| >
| > I'm encountering the test failure below using gcc-4.5 from MacPorts.
| >
| >>>>>> processing /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/default/src/file-io.cc
| >    ***** test
| >   assert (sscanf ("1,2", "%f", "C"), 1)
| >   assert (sscanf ("1,2", "%f", "fr_FR"), 1.2)
| > !!!!! test failed
| > assert (sscanf ("1,2", "%f", "fr_FR"),1.2) expected
| >   1.2000
| > but got
| >   1
| > values do not match
| >
| > I assume the changeset below should have fixed this?
| >
| > changeset:   14210:238e499c5fea
| > parent:      14208:67a0ab9f8283
| > user:        Pascal Dupuis <address@hidden>
| > date:        Wed Jan 18 16:40:29 2012 -0500
| > summary:     locale support implementation in [fs]scanf functions
| >
| > If so, I can file a bug report.
| >
| > Ben
| >
| 
| failing also on cygwin.

I think that is the changeset that caused this test failure.

Before that changeset, we didn't attempt to handle locales in sscanf,
and I'm not sure that this is the best way to do it.  Or that it makes
sense to only do something for *scanf functions when we don't even
attempt to handle locale properly anywhere else in Octave.

jwe