Re: some bugs

Boyko Bantchev wrote:

> Recently I've spotted the following problems using
> GUI (GTK2) Vim 7.2.330 on Ubuntu 10.04 (April 2010)
> with GNOME 2.30.2 (build 25.6.2010).
>
> -1-
> Unicode characters with grave (U+0300) or acute (U+0301)
> combining accents do not display correctly.
>
> -2-
> The following behaviour contradicts the documentation:
> :echo str2float('1.23') prints 1,0 (instead of 1.23)
> :echo str2float('1,23') prints 1,23 (instead of 1.0)
> (The documentation for str2float() says that the decimal point is
> always '.', regardless of the locale setting.)
>
> -3-
> Furthermore, *neither* of
> :echo eval('1.23')
> and
> :echo eval('1,23')
> evaluates to a correct floating-point number, printing an error
> message instead (both the dot and the comma are rejected).
>
> As a result, no normal floating-point computations can be done
> within this version of gVim.
>
> The terminal version of Vim does *not* have these bugs.

Please try out Vim 7.3b. It includes a change that should fix the comma
vs. decimal point problems.

> Also, on the same system, I tried to compile vim 7.3b.
> Running the configure script failed, suggesting that I should
> install ncurses – which I do have installed already.
>
> Do others share the same experience?

No, this should work. Did you do "make distclean" first?

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