bug in a2ps

[Davide Cesari]

Dear a2ps developers,
        I have a problem in a2ps when input is plain text and I have the
variable LANG set to IT_it for Italian locale: the decimal numbers in the
output postscript file are written with the Italian national convention of
using comma instead of dot as a decimal separator, which is illegal in
postscript language, so gv (and also any postscript printer, I suppose)
fails. An excerpt of a diff on two postscript files created with
LANG=IT_it set and LANG unset is the following:

< /th 15,000000 def
---
> /th 15.000000 def
695,696c695,696
< /bfs 8,005733 def
< /cw 4,803440 def
---
> /bfs 8.005733 def
> /cw 4.803440 def

Up to now I use the workaround to alias a2ps to a script like this:

#!/bin/bash
unset LANG
exec /usr/bin/a2ps $*

but a real fix could be nice. The version I am using is 4.13 (Linux Redhat
7.0-7.2). Thank you for the attention and for the development of a2ps.
        Salut, Davide

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