Re: GNUstep on a fresh Debian (S1-E4)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> 
> I was suspecting the same and dug out my old PowerBook, but in the end it 
> turns out that it's really a locale issue. The test program uses code like
>  n1 = [NSDecimalNumber decimalNumberWithString: @"0.009"];
> to define the decimal numbers. According to Apple's documentation this method 
> works with an unspecified locale, so the code works as long as this default 
> locale is English (or any other locale that uses a '.' as decimal separator), 
> but it breaks as soon as you are in a locale where '.' is not the decimal 
> separator (in my case German, where ',' is the decimal separator). I guess, 
> the test needs to be changed to use a fixed locale. On the other hand, on OS 
> X with Apple's foundation the test seems to work for me even though my 
> default locale is set to German. Perhaps while the default locale used by 
> -decimalNumberWithString: is unspecified according to Apple's documentation 
> they really use a fixed locale regardless of the user's locale nevertheless?

Thanks ... I changed the test to explicitly use [NSLocale systemLocale] ... I 
hope that fixes it.
I looked at the Apple documentation, and to me it reads like they *should* be 
using the German locale.