From aee41decdc26f6477ec995b68884a7439f0e1bfd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AlexBeattie42 <30098201+alexbeattie42@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:04:59 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Update locale string parsing

---
 OpenSim/Common/IO.cpp | 6 +++---
 OpenSim/Common/IO.h   | 2 --
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/OpenSim/Common/IO.cpp b/OpenSim/Common/IO.cpp
index c43fe0b083..15394fc329 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Common/IO.cpp
+++ b/OpenSim/Common/IO.cpp
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ int IO::_Pad = 8;
 int IO::_Precision = 8;
 char IO::_DoubleFormat[] = "%16.8lf";
 bool IO::_PrintOfflineDocuments = true;
-std::string IO::_locale = std::locale::classic().name(); 
+std::locale _locale = std::locale::classic(); 
 
 
 //=============================================================================
@@ -480,9 +480,9 @@ OpenOutputFile(const string &aFileName,ios_base::openmode mode)
 double IO::
 stod(const std::string& __str, std::size_t* __idx)
 { 
-    double result;
     std::istringstream iss(__str);
-    iss.imbue(std::locale(_locale));
+    iss.imbue(_locale);
+    double result = 0.0;
     iss >> result;
     return result;
 }
diff --git a/OpenSim/Common/IO.h b/OpenSim/Common/IO.h
index 495f8775de..b07d653a2f 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Common/IO.h
+++ b/OpenSim/Common/IO.h
@@ -66,8 +66,6 @@ class OSIMCOMMON_API IO {
     static char _DoubleFormat[IO_DBLFMTLEN];
     /** Whether offline documents should also be printed when Object::print is called. */
     static bool _PrintOfflineDocuments;
-    /** Locale specifier for reading and writing files */
-    static std::string _locale;
 
 
 //=============================================================================