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"problem converting '1.33' to a number"

Question:

When starting BALLView or any other BALL applications, on some Linux/Unix platforms users may get error messages like 'problem converting "1.33" to a number' and all kind of strange behaviour.

Answer:

This is problem generated by the locale settings on your computer. The conversion of floating point numbers fails if you have set the language to german. Until we come up with a better solution, you may try

export LANG=C

before starting BALLView or any other BALL application. This should fix your problems...

 
 

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