[fpc-devel] ThousandSeparator

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:02:06 +0100
> Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>> Yes, there's a message for that and yes on non-Windows OSes this might be
>> problematic...
> 
> AFAIK on Unix systems you can start each program with a different
> locale. The system wide locale is just the default on start. Therefore
> changing the system wide settings should not affect a running
> application - aka that would be a bug.

You can also have completely different desktops etc. (Gnome on one 
display, KDE on another, a text session on a third), which would be 
unlikely to use the same notification mechanism.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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