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spelling fixes and an explanatory comment

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Paul Davis 2016-05-05 14:21:02 -04:00
parent f2c5522f0f
commit 25603d810f

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@ -26,10 +26,10 @@
using namespace PBD;
/* The initial C++ locate is "C" regardless of the user's preferred locale.
/* The initial C++ locale is "C" regardless of the user's preferred locale.
* and affects std::sprintf() et al from <cstdio>
*
* the C locale from stlocale() matches the user's preferred locale
* the C locale from setlocale() matches the user's preferred locale
* and effects ::sprintf() et al from <stdio.h>
*
* Setting the C++ locale will change the C locale, but not the other way 'round.
@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ LocaleGuard::init ()
{
char* actual = setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, NULL);
if (strcmp ("C", actual)) {
/* purpose of LocaleGuard is to make sure we're using "C" for
the numeric locale during its lifetime, so make it so.
*/
old_c = strdup (actual);
/* this changes both C++ and C locale */
std::locale::global (std::locale (std::locale::classic(), "C", std::locale::numeric));