From ddde1797a900b818b96fc0818d9df0efacb5ac69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 02:01:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] strtod under some locales requires digits before the decimal

---
 doc/fontconfig-user.sgml | 8 ++++++--
 fonts.conf.in            | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/fontconfig-user.sgml b/doc/fontconfig-user.sgml
index d9dc7f2..d5c4be8 100644
--- a/doc/fontconfig-user.sgml
+++ b/doc/fontconfig-user.sgml
@@ -318,8 +318,12 @@ the property are given the indicated binding. 'mode' is one of:
     </programlisting>
   </para></refsect2>
   <refsect2><title><sgmltag>int</>, <sgmltag>double</>, <sgmltag>string</>, <sgmltag>bool</></title><para>
-These elements hold a single value of the indicated type.  <sgmltag>bool</> elements
-hold either true or false.
+These elements hold a single value of the indicated type.  <sgmltag>bool</>
+elements hold either true or false.  An important limitation exists in
+the parsing of floating point numbers -- fontconfig requires that
+the mantissa start with a digit, not a decimal point, so insert a leading
+zero for purely fractional values (e.g. use 0.5 instead of .5 and -0.5
+instead of -.5).
   </para></refsect2>
   <refsect2><title><sgmltag>matrix</></title><para>
 This element holds the four <sgmltag>double</> elements of an affine
diff --git a/fonts.conf.in b/fonts.conf.in
index 439a82c..a02187d 100644
--- a/fonts.conf.in
+++ b/fonts.conf.in
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
 		<edit name="matrix" mode="assign">
 			<times>
 				<name>matrix</name>
-				<matrix><double>1</double><double>.2</double>
+				<matrix><double>1</double><double>0.2</double>
 					<double>0</double><double>1</double>
 				</matrix>
 			</times>
-- 
2.39.5