[esp-r] Re: Automatic rounding of decimal points - locale settings

[Jon Hand]

If the language is defined with a comma as the decimal point then lots of places where
data is read from a file is impacted.  ESP-r assumes that a comma is a separator between
entities.  It can mess up scanning a model very quickly.

If someone wants to test a newer installer for ESP-r to run on Windows 7 I can send a link
(back up your older stuff first and ensure that the language decimal point is correctly set).

Compiling for Native Windows is not as horrible as it used to be (MSYS2 comes with a
package manager now), but a bit more complex than compiling for Linux or OSX.

Regards, Jon Hand
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From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk [esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk] on behalf of Achim Geissler [achim.geissler at intergga.ch]
Sent: 09 November 2015 18:15
To: esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk Club
Subject: [esp-r] Re: Automatic rounding of decimal points

Dear Dimitris,

firstly, you should definitely use “.” (period) as decimal separator, not “,” (comma).

Where does this happen (which feature of ESP-r is being used)? There are certain places in the code, where this is done, however, they should be few.

I’m afraid I couldn’t really help, though, as I cannot compile the windows version (I could maybe point to the place in the code which would need a change, however). My recent experience with students is that either a Cygwin installation or a dual boot Linux installation was basically manageable by the students (one, each, only, though, so no large statistic). Being able to compile the code does make life easier, in my experience.

Best
Achim


On 09 Nov 2015, at 17:24, Dimitris Jim Sfakianakis <dsfakianakis at gmail.com<mailto:dsfakianakis at gmail.com>> wrote:

Dear list,

I recently introduced an MSc student to ESP-r. She is using the Windows 12.2 version. Her problem is that whenever she defines an arithmetic with a decimal point, ESP-r automatically disregards the decimal and saves the number as an integer.

e.g. 2.7 becomes 2.

She is Greek and she is using a Greek version of windows, and I mention that because the default decimal separator is comma ',' and not period '.'. We tried using both when defining numbers with decimal points but the problem did not go away.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Kind regards,

Dimitris

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