[Remind-Fans] $Latitude, $Longitude are locale-sensitive (was Re: sun moon data)

[Dianne Skoll]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:57:22 +0100
Jochen Sprickerhof via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> I tried this with 03.04.02 from Debian unstable and found that the 
> variables a sensitive to locale:

> $ echo 'SET $Latitude   "40.68933"' | LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8 remind -
> -stdin-(1): Type mismatch

> @Dianne could you add a comment to the documentation the one needs to 
> use a comma depending on the locale?

Hmm... not sure I like that.  What are your thoughts about temporarily
switching to the "C" locale so it always uses "." as a decimal-point
separator?

Regards,

Dianne.

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