[Scummvm-devel] setlocale() doesn't work at Symbian

[Willem Jan Palenstijn]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 04:06:00PM +0300, Fiodar Strizhniou wrote:
> I create bugreport month ago about bad colours in most scenes in Zvision engine games. I get point to wrong setlocale() settings in some backends. I create and run test app. Nothing works(see screenshot). Also i have read somewhere in Symbian Sdk docs what setlocale doesnt work at Symbian.


You should really say things like that directly, instead of having us guess at
what you're trying to do.


The main question is: does sscanf work with "%f" for you? And if you set locale
to "C" explicitly?


-Willem Jan



> исходное сбщ
> Тема: Re: [Scummvm-devel] setlocale() doesn't work at Symbian
> От: Filippos Karapetis <bluegr at gmail.com>
> Дата: 17.02.2015 14.52
> 
> You don't use a correct value for the locale
> 
> You would want something like:
> setlocale(LC_ALL,"en_GB.ISO-8859-1");
> 
> Having said that, check backends/platform/sdl/sdl.cpp, where it does this:
> const Common::String locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> 
> // Restore default C locale to prevent issues with
> // portability of sscanf(), atof(), etc.
> // See bug #3615148
> setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
> 
> Be careful when changing the locale, you need to reset it afterwards (as
> the comment mentions).
> 
> This stackoverflow question may be helpful:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3191664/list-of-all-locales-and-their-short-codes
> 
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Fiodar Strizhniou <fedor_qd at mail.ru> wrote:
> 
> > I write simple application and run on phone:
> >   printf("Locale is: %s\n", setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_GB"));
> > Locale is NULL
> > Which parts (decimal separators, etc) should be set? Which values from
> > setlocale() used?
> > Always yours, Strizhniou Fedor.
> > С уважением, Стрижнёв Фёдор.
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
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