From: oetiker <oetiker@a5681a0c-68f1-0310-ab6d-d61299d08faa>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:02:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: added note on locale
X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=rrdtool.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2269cac6b933b95875479de98d4da94d9efa195f

added note on locale


git-svn-id: svn://svn.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/trunk/program@1159 a5681a0c-68f1-0310-ab6d-d61299d08faa
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 99d2c6b..7c69bdb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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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