#92706 xbase-clients: [xcalc] should have localization support (LC_NUMERIC)

Package:
x11-apps
Source:
x11-apps
Description:
X applications
Submitter:
Thomas Janke
Date:
2023-02-18 23:03:02 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#92706#5
Date:
2001-04-03 11:01:58 UTC
From:
To:
Xcalc currently uses a dot to separate the parts of real numbers. In
non-Englisch or non-American countries, a comma is used instead.
Therefore the comma is to be found on the numberpad. When running X
with, e.g. German localisation, I have to type a dot with the left index
while using the numberpad with the right hand. This is somewhat
inconvinient and should be changed.

I personally do not care whether xcalc actually shows a comma instead of
a dot, but it should be able to accept a comma as a dot, depending from
the localisation. I don't know, whether xcalc uses the comma character
for some other function, but if not, xcalc could just accept comma and
dot as a dot. So you don't have to deal with localisation really.

I hope that you can fix this yourselves or find the responsible
maintainer of the original source code.

Thank you very much

Yours

#92706#20
Date:
2023-02-18 22:04:18 UTC
From:
To:
I believe this was fixed upstream a couple years after this bug was reported:

  341. Added KP_Separator to symbols that can generate decimal() in xcalc
       (Egbert Eich).

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~libv/xfree86/commit/programs/xcalc/XCalc.ad?id=b4898b6e916dbc0f71daa5edaba1cc115ae5794d