[flac-dev] Anything else for Flac 1.3.0?

[Ulrich Klauer]

Martijn van Beurden wrote:

>> >flac.exe -d "C:\Users\Martijn\Music\file.flac" --skip=00:01.11
>>
>> flac 1.3.0, Copyright (C) 2000-2013  Josh Coalson & Xiph.Org Foundation
>> flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and
>> you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type
>> `flac' for details.
>>
>> ERROR: invalid value for --skip
>> Type "flac" for a usage summary or "flac --help" for all options
>
> Apparently there's something with the dot there that doesn't work in
> Windows, because using skip with only minutes and seconds (and no
> fraction) works.

Your locale probably has the comma as the decimal mark, so  
"--skip=00:01,11" would work. (Whether it is a good idea to honour  
locale settings in command-line arguments is a different matter.)  
test_flac.sh is aware of this:
> # we use '.' as decimal separator in --skip/--until tests
> export LANG=C LC_ALL=C

So it seems that this locale setting is ignored on Windows.

Ulrich