all vlcrc float variables incorrect

For countries which use comma instead of decimal point in float numbers, vlc saves the values to vlcrc as e.g. 0,500 but after next vlc restart, vlc shows them as 0,000

assigned to @dionoea

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(In [12959]) re fix the stupid float ","/"." error. Please don't break it once again (fixes #406 (closed))

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This is utterly flawed. I'm not going to explain AGAIN why saving config file in the locale rather than in a shared way is stupid (hell, do we translate command line parameters and config file options names ?).

The bug is in wxWindows, not in the core.

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assigned to @Courmisch and unassigned @dionoea

I couldn't care less where the bug is.

Dionoea's solution might be a workaround, but it has the great advantage to actually work.

So either fix what needs to be in wx or let the workaround

(In [12961]) Work-around wxWidgets overriding the LC_NUMERIC setting (closes #406 (closed))

In any case, that's ugly and thread-safe. The proper solution would be to reimplement an atof() version that is locale-independant and use in the many places that expect C/American float numbers. Even then, there might be some buggy underlying libraries breakage (e.g. Live555 ?).

Tested on Linux (both UTF-8 and Latin-x locales). Needs testing on Win32.

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