locales

[Andy Robinson]

On 04/02/16 16:00, Andy Robinson wrote:
> With the old version 0.1 on Linux I found that calling GST functions
> would often change the locale, which was very irritating.
>
> With 1.2.4 on Linux and 1.6.3 on Windows and Mac, I find the locale no
> longer changes when I call a GST function - good!
>
> My question is, when did this happen? Is it true of all 1.x releases,
> that the locale will not get changed?

Ok I've found the answer in the Changelog for 1.2.4, so I guess 1.2.4 is 
the first version which doesn't mess with the locale:

2012-11-20 12:56:12 +0100  Sebastian Dröge 
<sebastian.droege at collabora.co.uk>
* gst/gst.c:
   gst: Don't set the locale in gst_init()
   The function init_pre() in gstreamer/gst/gst.c calls 
setlocale(LC_ALL, ""), which sets the locale to the values specified in 
the environment.  This is wrong for two reasons:
   1. It is absolutely not the task of a library to decide on the 
correct locale for a program.  Some programs change the locale for 
various (good or bad) reasons, and libraries should respect that.


Thanks for fixing this.

Regards,
Andy Robinson, Seventh String Software, www.seventhstring.com