[Geany-Devel] small bug in utils_strtod()

Steven Blatnick steve8track at xxxxx
Wed Dec 4 20:51:38 UTC 2013


That looks like "pee yellow" to me...

On 12/04/2013 01:38 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
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> On 5 December 2013 07:26, Tory Gaurnier <tory.gaurnier at linuxmail.org 
> <mailto:tory.gaurnier at linuxmail.org>> wrote:
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>     No offense, but a paint store isn't a very good comparison,
>     because they have 100s of "named" colors, and you can get 1000s of
>     mixes that then have their own names, when it comes to computer
>     science we use RGB, we can't crack open a can of green and mix it
>     with egg shells white, we use HEX or DEC values to mix red green
>     and blue. And HEX is hardly cryptic, first two digits are red,
>     middle two digits are green, and last two digits are blue. A
>     program/API should always support HEX, and it's good practice to
>     also support DEC values and named colors.
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> And it doesn't understand Gamboge, a colour name that has been in use 
> at least since the 1600s.  #e49b0f :(
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> Cheers
> Lex
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