[Thuban-commits] r2707 - trunk/thuban

[scm-commit@wald.intevation.org]

Author: bernhard
Date: 2006-09-24 21:33:48 +0200 (Sun, 24 Sep 2006)
New Revision: 2707

Modified:
   trunk/thuban/NEWS
Log:
Improved news about current fixes.


Modified: trunk/thuban/NEWS
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--- trunk/thuban/NEWS	2006-09-24 19:25:26 UTC (rev 2706)
+++ trunk/thuban/NEWS	2006-09-24 19:33:48 UTC (rev 2707)
@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
 Changes in Thuban 1.1.0+CVS
 ===========================
-	
- - Fixed behaviour with the proj bug and python >=2.4 
-   when decimal_point != '.'. So de_DE locales will work fine again.
 
+ - Python <= 2.4 calls C extension modules with the set locale.
+   This means those modules need to be robust against a locale
+   where LC_NUMERIC is set in a way that the decimal_point might
+   be a comma or something else. Problems are diagnosed 
+   at least with shapelib, proj and gdal. To cope with it we:
+
+   + Added a new option --setdecimalcommalocale to runtests.py so that
+   all tests can be checked with a comma as  decimal_point, if we
+   can find such an LC_NUMERIC. We only try a few in test/localessupport.py.
+
+   + Fixed behaviour with proj by switching to LC_NUMERIC "C" before
+   initialising the projection and afterward switch back.
+
+   + Added a workaround to internal shapelib and pyshapelib.
+
  - Startup improved: We fail right away if the internal encoding could
    not be determined. In this case, try to set the LANGUAGE variable to
    one value and use no colon.