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Delphi Services and Localization Issue

Delphi Bistro – About five months ago I was called in to look into an localization issue affecting one of our software products. The software in case is a Windows Service written in Delphi. This service is used to collect live data from a series of networked devices and store such data into a RDBMS. As usual my colleagues were very quick to blame the issue on Delphi. The Investigation – Part I The issue was that the service failed to obtain the proper local setting for decimal separator when running on a Spanish Mexican Windows Server 2003. In other words, the service would not correctly store numeric ...

Favorite? Off-Topic? Fletch @ 2009-08-09 17:44