I'm having the weirdest problem here.

When I copy an attribute expression like this:

stamp(“../copystamp_postrigs”, “inst_offsetx”, 0)

… and paste it in a channel in another node (both set to hscript), it pastes this:

stamp(“../copystamp_postrigs”. “inst_offsetx”. 0)

I then have to go through and change all of the appropriate periods back to commas.

OR, I can go back to the node I copied from, copy the same text again and paste it again, and suddenly it comes through just fine.

Do I have gremlins? Did I sacrifice the wrong kind of goat? Is this a known issue, and I need to install a newer build?

Houdini 14.0.201.13, Windows 7, both 64-bit.

We've been working hard at improving internationalization, to make sure our fonts support UTF8, and people can write comments and things in their native language.

Unfortunately, different locales have different ideas of what the number 10,000 is. This can cause this sort of mysterious translation as some system decides your period is a decimal mark and converts it to a comma…

Do try a latest build, and if you can't, look at changing the locale for Houdini.

For linux, it is:
http://makandracards.com/makandra/28205-linux-running-a-program-with-a-different-locale-than-your-default [makandracards.com]

But windows I'm less certain of, there is this
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13209 [microsoft.com]

But the best situation is to get us to fix it if it is in the latest production build. You are running the original release, so I'm hopeful it was dealt with.

This is kind of funny, since I live literally 20 minutes from SideFX.

I'll try a newer build, thanks!