Bug #77278 [Com]: floatval(strval(value)) truncates if locale's decimal_point isn't a period

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77278&edit=1 ID: 77278 Comment by: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Reported by: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Summary: floatval(strval(value)) truncates if locale's decimal_point isn't a period Status: Verified Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: nonsense! show me the PHP code where type casts after setlocale() change tehir meaning! you can't even distinct what happens by use setlocale('whatever', NULL) before and after the tidy call because i get always get de_DE.UTF-8 as result Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-12-10 21:41:36] requinix@php.net You can't blame PHP for Tidy's problem. If they change locale (already a dangerous operation since it's not thread-safe) and then don't revert it to the previous setting when they're done, that's their fault. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-12-10 21:33:13] spam2 at rhsoft dot net working as intended? a random linked library calls locale and the whole behavior of internal php typecast changes for every follow-up code in a PHP application is intended? really? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-12-10 21:29:50] nikic@php.net I think we should get rid of the locale-dependent float to string cast in PHP 8, but for now this is working as "intended". We should definitely *not* make string to float cast locale-sensitive as well, that would only make a bad situation worse. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-12-10 19:37:59] requinix@php.net var_dump(setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "de_DE", "German_Germany")); var_dump(1 / 2); float 0,5 var_dump(strval(1 / 2)); // string "0,5" var_dump(floatval(strval(1 / 2))); // float 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-12-10 18:47:07] spam2 at rhsoft dot net > but that there's an inconsistency between casting floats > to strings and strings to floats when it comes to the decimal symbol? that's exactly the point - oustide of format functions my locale de_DE.UTF-8 normally don't matter and shouldn't do so but afer a simple tidy call anywhere every following php code doing type casts on float values becomes a lottery ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77278 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77278&edit=1