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[IDV #MMV-267913]: IDV will not run with certain language specific settings in WinXP

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  • Subject: [IDV #MMV-267913]: IDV will not run with certain language specific settings in WinXP
  • Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:21:28 -0600
Hi-

> Full Name: Hans Olandersson
> Email Address: address@hidden
> Organization: n/a
> Package Version: 2.6a3 (nightly build)
> Operating System: Win XP SP3 (Swedish)
> Hardware:
> Description of problem: When trying to run IDV v 2.6a3 under localized Win XP 
> (Swedish language settings), IDV produces a couple of error messages, and 
> just quits.
> 
> Error messages are:
> Loading  parameter to color table properties
> Unparseable number: ".25"
> and
> Fatal error initializing resources
> Unparseable number: ".25"
> 
> The issue appears to be IDV not adapting to localized settings in Windows, 
> always assuming the character "." is used for decimal point ("," is used in 
> Swedish Windows).
> When changing the WinXP language settings to "English (US)", IDV starts 
> without errors.
> 
> IDV v 2.5 appears to handle this correctly, though.

Guess that's why the "a" in 2.6a3 stands for "alpha". ;-)  Thanks for catching
this problem.

We made a change last week to fix another language issue, but broke what
used to work for you.  I reverted back to the old code and made a different
change to fix the other problem.

In general, what we serialize in the XML is supposed to use English decimal
formatting, but user input and display should use the local language 
formatting.  

Thanks again for finding this problem.  I put out a new nightly build with
the fix.  Please let me know if that doesn't work for you.  Sorry for the
problem.

Don Murray

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: MMV-267913
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open