xcalc comma doesn't work properly under de_DE.UTF-8

jaakov jaakov jaakov@ro.ru
Sat Feb 1 18:40:00 GMT 2014


> > Package: xcalc
> > Version: 1.0.5
> > 
> > Problem: Input digits after the decimal separator (comma in German) are
> > ignored for computation.
> > ...
> 
> This behaviour appears to be due a problem with cygwin's sscanf() in the
> de_DE.UTF-8 locale, apparently already fixed in the latest snapshot. See [1].
> 
> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00294.html

Thank you, Jon. Indeed, my relatively recent cygwin (as of today) does not have this patch yet. Let us wait until the snapshot gets released.
Best,
Jaakov.

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