On Feb 11, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:

The real question here is why g_ascii_strtod is used at all, because it

should only be used for numbers pulled from datafiles etc. that are not

meant for user consumption. For localized numbers, one should use g_strtod

or strtod.

And that's the key.

For some uses, Inkscape is operating on SVG numbers which are not localized. For other uses it is operating on user-visible numbers that *are* localized.

So that's why it's used at all.

As to why there's a problem here, it is most likely either a problem of inappropriate copy-n-paste, or of a single bit of code that doesn't realize it needs to operate on both user-input and SVG abstract strings.