[fpc-pascal] DecimalSeparator automatic change ?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, LacaK wrote:

> Hi,
> I have strange problem, I have application on Windows 2012 Server, where is 
> set locale to Slovak (DecimalSeparator is comma)
> In my application in DataModuleCreate I explicitly set 
> FormatSettings.DecimalSeparator='.' (dot)
> All works as expected (decimal numbers are formated with "dot"), but after 
> some time (hours) when application runs, DecimalSeparator changes back to 
> "comma" ?
> Is it possible ?
> AFAIK International settings are initialised once in sysutils initialization 
> section, or are they reevaluated later ?

They are initialized once in FPC.

But there is a windows message that notifies applications when the settings change:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7385357/window-message-notification-language-and-locale

Maybe lazarus picks it up.

Michael.