[Insight-developers] [vtkusers] wx/vtk weirdness

[Bill Lorensen]

Luis,

Actually, we can surround certain functions with c-style setlocale and
it solves the problems. I already fixed StimulateImageIO,
PolygonGroupSpatialObjectXMLFile and VTKImageIO. I have not checked in
any changes yet. Still more investigation is needed as to the best
portable solution.

I do this:
  const char *originalLocale;
  char *currentLocale;
  originalLocale = setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, NULL);
  currentLocale = strdup(originalLocale ? originalLocale : "C");
  setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");

......


setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, currentLocale);
        free(currentLocale);

For example in StimulateImageIO I surrounded the calls in
StimulateImageIO::InternalReadImageInformation with the above
snippets.

There are other readers/writers that use C++ streams, and there we
will have to imbue.

Even in some code that uses streams, people still use sscanf, atof,
etc. In the long run we probably should address these cases with
stream replacements.

This also brings up the larger i17n issue. We need to have a plan of
attack for itk.

Bill

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Catching up with this discussion....
>
> What I gather from the email-thread is that we should
> replace uses of sscanf with the use of C++ streams
> and to use the imbue method for setting the locale.
>
> Is that right ?
>
>
>      Luis
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just verified several itk reader problems. I modified the itkIOTests
>> test driver so that it set the locale to fr_FR (in honor of Mathieu).
>> Sure enough several tests fail.
>>
>> I am going to start a discussion to the itk developers' mail list.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I see that itk has similar issues, but only for 2 of its readers. So
>>> what is the proper way to read floats? With streams?
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Mathieu Malaterre
>>> <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Yes.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Mathieu,
>>>>>
>>>>> There are many vtk readers that use sscanf to read floating point
>>>>> numbers. Does that mean that these readers may also misinterpret
>>>>> floating point if LC_NUMERIC is different.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mathieu Malaterre
>>>>> <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:17 PM, "Eduardo M. Suárez Santana"
>>>>>> <esuarez at itccanarias.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:47 PM, "Eduardo M. Suárez Santana"
>>>>>>>> <esuarez at itccanarias.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This looks weird to me. Spacing of vtkDICOMImageReader depends on
>>>>>>>>> whether I use wx or not.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Can anyone reproduce?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It fails in vtk-5.2.1 and vtk-5.4.2 on linux, python-2.6.2 and wxpython-2.8.10.1
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> DICOMParser is using internally sscanf to decode the spacing. It will
>>>>>>>> fails to work when LC_NUMERIC is not compatible with "C" style. I
>>>>>>>> believe by default GTK (underlying implementation of wx on linux) sets
>>>>>>>> the LC_NUMERIC corresponding to your locales.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> HTH
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rethinking.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is not a bug if the correct behaviour depends on setting an unrelated
>>>>>>> variable (DICOM - LC_NUMERIC)?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I /personally/ believe it is. This is up to the DICOM implementor to
>>>>>> make sure the reading/writing of floating point value works as per
>>>>>> DICOM specs (ie. use '.' and not ',').
>>>>>> Maybe log a bug for that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2cts
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Mathieu
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mathieu
>>>>
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