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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2880] Tshark - decimal symbol

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:38:37 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2880

--- Comment #4 from Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-04-12 12:38:35 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
>     2) use something other than , as the separator in arguments - and,
> obviously, something other than . as well; I think ' and space are also out -
> colon?

True, although I had ruled that out as too painful to users.  But I guess using
a colon while maintaining backward compatibility might be another option.

> So what *is* the convention for command-line floating-point arguments in UN*X
> and Windows?  Do we use, say, C-locale (which means Anglo-Saxon locale :-))
> format, so that the same command-line argument works in all locales, or the
> native locale's format, so that people can type in floating-point numbers in
> the format they're used to?

If you're asking for *our* convention, I think the answer is "42." :-)

There was once a discussion on -dev about just doing putenv("LANG=C") to force
Wireshark to be an English-only program (I suggested it as a technical
solution, but it was, I believe, a Norwegian who seemed to like the idea).

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