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Re: built-in printf %f parameter format depend on LC_NUMERIC

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On 7/12/19 4:45 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/12/19 4:26 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
>> Op 12-07-19 om 21:46 schreef Dennis Clarke:
>>> Well the man page for XPG6 bc in Solaris 10 claims :
>>>
>>> ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
>>>        See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment
>>>        variables  that  affect  the  execution of bc: LANG, LC_ALL,
>>>        LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
>>>
>>> Really?
>>
>> Note the absence of LC_NUMERIC in that paragraph.
> 
> Yeah, but LC_ALL overrides LC_NUMERIC anyway.
> 

Maybe.

     setlocale ( LC_ALL, "" );

Undoes all that in a jiffy.

I just cracked open the sources to XPG6/XPG4 dc which is the backend to
  bc and guess what ?


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int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
         (void) setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
         (void) textdomain(TEXT_DOMAIN);

         init(argc, argv);
         commnds();
         /* NOTREACHED */
}

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So there you see it in all its glory.


-- 
Dennis Clarke
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Re: built-in printf %f parameter format depend on LC_NUMERIC Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> - 2019-07-12 20:47 -0400

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