added note on locale

[rrdtool.git] / NEWS

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@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ Forecasting (Evan Miller)
   method. It is a drop-in replacement for HWPREDICT, and is better suited for
   data whose seasonal variations grow or shrink in proportion to the average.
 
+Locale Independent Input
+------------------------
+* Regardles of locale you are in, rrdtool always expects input to be numbers (LC_NUMERIC)
+  in C or POSIX locale for numbers. (not 1,1 but 1.1) this is necessary to make
+  things like RPN work as it uses , as a separator.
 
 RRDTOOL NEWS
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