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<h3>List of questions in this category</h3>
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-<li><a href="#wxgtk">What is wxWidgets 2 for GTK+?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#wxgtk">What is wxWidgets for GTK+?</a></li>
<li><a href="#locale">Why doesn't reading floating point numbers work when using wxWidgets?</a></li>
<li><a href="#gnome">Does wxGTK have GNOME support?</a></li>
<li><a href="#redhat">Warning about GTK libraries supplied with RedHat</a></li>
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-<h3><a name="wxgtk">What is wxWidgets 2 for GTK?</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="wxgtk">What is wxWidgets for GTK?</a></h3>
-wxWidgets 2 for GTK is a port of wxWidgets to the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/gtk" target=_top>GTK+ toolkit</a>,
-which is freely available for most flavours of Unix with X. wxWidgets 2 for GTK is
+wxWidgets for GTK is a port of wxWidgets to the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/gtk" target=_top>GTK+ toolkit</a>,
+which is freely available for most flavours of Unix with X. wxWidgets for GTK is
often abbreviated to wxGTK. wxGTK has a separate home page <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>here</a>.
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<h3><a name="locale">Why doesn't reading floating point numbers work when using wxWidgets?</a></h3>
If your program reads the floating point numbers in the format <tt>123.45</tt>
-from a file, it may suddently start returning just <tt>123</tt> instead of the
+from a file, it may suddenly start returning just <tt>123</tt> instead of the
correct value on some systems -- which is all the more mysterious as the same
code in a standalone program works just fine.
Robert Roebling replies:<P>
-"The important thing is the libc version that your app
+"The important thing is the libc version that your app
is linked against. The most recent version is 2.2.5
and programs linked against it will not run with version
2.1.X so that you will fare best if you compile your app
on a 2.1.X system. It will then run on practically all
Linux distros (if you link you app statically against
-the image libraries and std C++ lib)."
+the image libraries and std C++ lib)."
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<h3><a name="#static">Can I statically link the GTK+ library?</a></h3>