[Tilesathome] Problems in tilesGen.pl on Win32 and Italian locale

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On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 03:56:10PM +0200, Luca Boschetto wrote:
> Job No. 1 100,0 % done.
> [#1   0% tile] Transforming zoom level 12 with or/p...Argument
> "51,618017" isn't numeric in addition (+) at orp/orp.pl line 314.
> Argument "51,672555" isn't numeric in addition (+) at orp/orp.pl line 314.
> Argument "16,259766" isn't numeric in subtraction (-) at orp/orp.pl line 316.
> Argument "16,347656" isn't numeric in subtraction (-) at orp/orp.pl
> line 316.[#1   0% tile] Beziercurvehinting zoom level 12...
> Terminating on signal SIGINT(2)

> It seems, indeed, that line 855 in tilesGen.pl: "no locale; # use dot
> as separator even for Germans!" does not work as expected.  I wonder
> how all other comma-decimal users do, I even thought it might be a
> problem with my config, but I don't see which it could be.  Might this
> be a problem with comma-decimal locales only under Windows?

Might well be. Locales suck.

As far as I can see there was no single fix that worked for all users in all circumstances, so far.