Turtle Art should respect locale when rendering decimal point

[walter]

Feedback from Erikos:

a) '.' versus ',' for floating point numbers

In TA you can only use the dot to specify a floating point number. In
languages like German and Spanish floating point numbers are specified
with a ','. I think we should either make it locale dependent (can be
seen in the output of Calculate), or we just allow to use '.' and ','
(the latter might have some side effects though).

[walter]

I think the attached version 99 does this correctly. Please test.

[erikos]

I tested your bundle 99 on 0.84. I could not type the ',' in an number entry field. Tested with german locale. Nothing in the logs.

[walter]

locale.localecon() was not returning the proper info. In this patch ( http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/turtleart/repos/mainline/commits/dce9973befba3e9c5f44c2b92521c45162fca870) I set the locale based on $LANG and it seems to behave as expected. (Only tested in jhbuild so far.)

[erikos]

I did the following to reproduce the issue.

[erikos@pennylane ~]$ python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Jun 4 2010, 18:20:16)
[GCC 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat 4.4.4-2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import locale

locale.getdefaultlocale()

('de_DE', 'UTF8')

locale.localeconv()decimal_point?

'.'

import os
os.environLANG?

'de_DE.utf8'

lang = os.environLANG?
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, lang)

'de_DE.utf8'

locale.localeconv()decimal_point?

','

locale.getdefaultlocale()

('de_DE', 'UTF8')

I think we should find out what happens. Then we can come up with the right patch. We do not have to rush here.

[erikos]

I did the following to reproduce the issue.

[erikos@pennylane ~]$ python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Jun  4 2010, 18:20:16)
[GCC 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat 4.4.4-2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale
>>>
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('de_DE', 'UTF8')
>>> locale.localeconv()['decimal_point']
'.'
>>> import os
>>> os.environ['LANG']
'de_DE.utf8'
>>> lang = os.environ['LANG']
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, lang)
'de_DE.utf8'
>>> locale.localeconv()['decimal_point']
','
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('de_DE', 'UTF8')

I think we should find out what happens. Then we can come up with the right patch. We do not have to rush here.

[sascha_silbe]

Replying to erikos:

[erikos@pennylane ~]$ python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Jun 4 2010, 18:20:16)
[GCC 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat 4.4.4-2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale}}}
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('de_DE', 'UTF8')
>>> locale.localeconv()['decimal_point']
'.'

This works as  designed (by  POSIX): all programs start in the C locale and need to call setlocale() first for any locale environment variable to take effect.
The  recommended way to do that is to set LC_ALL to the empty string:

    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')

I would expect sugar.activity.main to do that for all activities that use our framework.

[walter]

Interesting. I'll try it and report back. Thanks. (I agree, it should be built into the framework.)

[walter]

simpler locale init

[walter]

 http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/turtleart/repos/mainline/commits/0edd452a2c4e1628fb35ec2cc8e5f09594eed4a7

Please test.

[erikos]

Walter, can we open a general ticket to not forget about the general task, that all activities have that support? Is there a ticket already?

[walter]

See #2433