[GNC] Problem with auto generation of entries

[Geoff Jankowski]

Yes it was a locale issue but the odd thing is that even though I selected France as my locale, I overrode the comma so that it used a point but it did not work.  I have reversed it all back top a UK setting and it is fine again.


Geoff Jankowski
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> On 23 Oct 2024, at 17:23, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Geoff,
> 
> I agree with Fred here.  It looks like the SX was written with one locale
> of decimal, but you are now in a different locale of decimal.  The SX
> processor is sensitive in that it stores the raw text and needs the same
> locale it was written in to properly parse it.
> 
> Did you perhaps change your system locale after entering the SX?  Or is
> the data file with SX from another machine that was in a different locale?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -derek
> 
> On Wed, October 23, 2024 11:08 am, Fred Bone wrote:
>> On 23 October 2024 at 16:42, Geoff Jankowski said:
>> 
>>> Hi All, (Again! I am trying to send it as plain text to see if the image
>>> gets through the server)
>>> 
>>> I have resent this with the image attached as suggested.
>> 
>> Looks as though it's expecting a comma as the decimal separator, and you
>> have used dot.
>> 
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