Re: Strange comma bug on Lubuntu 24 ...

Can also try forcing the locale before starting pd. See the readme in theo's source /po folder which mentions this lower down.

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On Jun 8, 2025, at 6:37 PM, Antoine Rousseau <[email protected]> wrote:


Hi it really looks like a "locale" issue, where "0.1" gets encoded "0,1". Likely one of the externals the patch is using (vstplugin?). List every externals (send the list here) and try removing them one by one and retry saving the patch each time.

Le dim. 8 juin 2025 à 11:17, oliver <[email protected] > a écrit :

Hi, dear list !

I'm growing slightly desperate as i recently encountered a weird bug in

PD 0.55-2 on a

LUUNTU 24 system that i can't seem to track down no matter what i try.

Here's the outline:

After a while of working on a patch, without any reason or reproducable

scenario,

PD starts to save patches converting commas to colons.

Re-opening such a "wrong formatted" patch of course produces a lot of

errors, f.e. in message boxes that i use for loadbang stuff.

So, something like:

[;

foo 0.0345;

bar 4.567;

me 0.001;(

becomes just

[;

foo 0(

omitting all the rest of the message

And i get an error in the console:

canvas: no method for 'float'

Repairing such patches of course is a long and cumbersome drag

(because it's not immediately noticeable when this bug starts to kick

in, only on patch re-opening).

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My patch is very big and involved (has lots of abstractions), so i won't

post it here.

First i thought it had something to do with an abstraction that used

data structures quite heavily, which occasionally threw some errors.

But i already removed that part from my patch. I am using a lot of

"write" and "read" stuff in my patch (mostly [text]s, but also

.fxp/.vstpreset files with [vstplugin~]. I can't seem to find any weird

stuff going on in my patch that could lead to this bug.

I have never experienced this before and i am beginning to think that

either my computer or my system is messed up. But just before i throw it

out of the window: Has anyone any idea what's going on here ? Or

experienced something similar to this ?

Best

Oliver

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