Problems with international usage

[Nick Draper]

Two specific cases were mentinoed:

1. in a locale (europe) where commas are used as the decimal point mantid will not accept this
2. in a locale (Japan, China) where the yen character is used for the (/ or is it \) character, mantid cannot handle this in paths leaading to crashed. (this one is alsmost certainly a problem of handling paths and slashes ourself rather than using Poco or python os classes.

[Nick Draper]

Batch modify all SSC tickets to critical priority (this will also show up as an update for all those already as critical)

[Nick Draper]

Raise how to prevent / path addition with TSC

[Martyn Gigg]

Time estimate is for improving the path handling within Mantid to use Path classes: 2 weeks

The internationalization seems like a decision has to be by the PMB as to whether effort required, which I think is enormous, is worth it.

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​12079