Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=17079&edit=1
ID: 17079
Comment by: philonor at googlemail dot com
Reported by: jonathan at tricolon dot com
Summary: setlocale changes the internal representation of
floats
Status: Not a bug
Type: Bug
Package: Scripting Engine problem
Operating System: Red Hat Linux 7.1
PHP Version: 4.3.0 RC2
Assigned To: hholzgra
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Did the behavior change between 5.3 and 5.4?
I get curious values running the following script on
5.3.3 (ubuntu) and 5.4.7 (win):
<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_EN');
$x = 0.1;
echo $x;
echo '<br />';
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE');
$x = 0.1;
echo $x;
?>
5.3.3 (ubuntu) gives me the following:
0.1
0,1
5.4.7 (win):
0.1
0.1
That can't be the expected behavior if there was no change
between those versions?
Previous Comments:
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[2012-06-22 11:05:53] schindler dot andor at empo dot deletethis dot hu
Yes, this is not a bug. This is a huge epic fail. This is a great example, why people hate PHP.
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[2004-10-23 16:58:47] erki at lap dot ttu dot ee
Having the setlocale function in string.c execute
if ((lc.decimal_point)[0] != '.') {
/* set locale back to C */
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");
}
is not a solution. The particular "fix" broke other things. In many countries, comma is
used as a decimal separator. Case in point: 3 weeks ago, a certain financial database of a major
telco company in Europe was upgraded to use PHP 4.3.8 (formerly 4.2.2). The system uses Oracle for
persistence, where the decimal separator is a comma, as is a custom in that country. So numbers came
in from Oracle, and then PHP was unable to process them correctly. For example, if a client had a
debt of 25,12, and the client paid 5, then the comparison ($paid_amount > $debt) said
incorrectly that the paid amount was more than the debt.
Result: hundreds of wasted man-hours. In the end we recompiled PHP without that "fix".
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[2003-07-05 06:13:19] dMNz at one dot lt
am pabandymuj..
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[2003-03-24 10:18:13] moriyoshi@php.net
Related discussion: http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.dev&article=95211
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[2003-01-02 13:58:52] php at zeguigui dot com
I switched to PHP 4.3 (in dev only) and I saw this change in locale handling. It is not OS dependant
as I have the problem with Windows XP.
In PHP < 4.3.0 I have a MySQL database with floats. To handle those floats I had to make some
convertions (with str_replace) as results were not locale dependant (I use fr_FR). For instance if I
had 1.234 stored in db, $row = mysql mysql_fetch_row($handle) would return in $row[0] the value
"1.234" and $row[0] * 100 would return 100 whereas of 123,4 (if outputed).
In PHP = 4.3.0 I do not need those convertion routines anymore (it was a workaround in my opinion).
So starting with PHP 4.3:
$a = 1.234 ==> OK whatever locale is
$b = "1.234" ==> OK whatever locale is
$c = "1,234" ==> NOT OK whatever locale is
If I have some user inputs I have to convert from locale representation to number representation
before processing them... it would be great to have a function that do the job for us (didn't
find one, sorry!)... but maybe that's not the good place to ask for this!
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