Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: running the user interface in a thread ...

[Markus Armbruster]

Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:

>   Hi,
>
>> That, and so the UI can use localization without corrupting other
>> threads that MUST use the C locale (QMP parsing/output of floating point
>> is particularly important to get right with '.' instead of ',' for a
>> decimal separator).
>
> A quick look at the setlocale manpage doesn't make clear whenever
> threads can have different locales or not.

Try uselocale(3).

> Related:  Possibly we should move UIs to another *process* instead?
> At least the ones which use a UI toolkit (i.e. sdl, gtk, cocoa).

If we can pull it off...