The GTK2 module sets the locale of the process to "". This breaks on locales which e.g. use COMMA instead of PERIOD for floating point numbers. The symptom I have observed is that pike will run into a loop inside of the compiler when trying to parse a float and then eventually crash.

I think the short-term fix should be to call gtk_disable_setlocale() inside of the GTK2 module to prevent GTK2 to change the locale. Maybe mid-term we can make pike not depend on the process locale? I suppose there might be other external modules which might mess with locale.

Arne

P.S. I won't be able to attend the pike meetup unfortunately...