[Lazarus] TFloatSpinEdit and DecimalSeparator (GTK)

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Paul Ishenin wrote:

> Bart wrote:
> > Shouldn't we then strive to make SysUtils use locale settings on all platforms?
> > As it is now, it's rather inconsistent.
> >
> > Maybe I should ask on the pfc mailinglist?
> >   
> As I know the core of the fpc rtl (and sysutils is there) does not want 
> to depend on the libc but clocale unit is using it. Thus developers must 
> decide themself whether to include it or not. But we can simple use it 
> in some basic LCL unit as we do with cwstring so the problem will be solved.
> 
> I dont know what other lazarus developers think about this.

Since you use Libc anyway, I think this is the best way for the time being.

Unless of course Graeme Geldenhuys works through his meanwhile astronomic TODO 
list and implements the Locale checking himself in 100% Object Pascal :-)

Michael.