#25246 [NEW]: broken locale support for decimal_point

From: david at boe dot es Operating system: linux PHP version: 4.3.2 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: broken locale support for decimal_point Description: ------------ As stated in http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=17079 and http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.dev&article=95211 , PHP always resets decimal_point to "." besides your locale "decimal_point". This breaks backward compatibility, at least with PHP 4.2.3 This is BAD as long as we use na Oracle database with NLS_LANG=Spanish_Spain.WE8ISO8859P1 , needed to output regional chars like ñ and áéíóú. This means that all operations with numerical values returned by a database query (decimal part separated by ',') are broken now. In my linux: [root@farm2 root]# export LANG=es_ES [root@farm2 root]# locale -k decimal_point decimal_point="," The script: <?php setlocale(LC_ALL, 'es_ES'); $locale_info = localeconv(); echo "decimal_point: {$locale_info["decimal_point"]}\n"; $value1="1.5"; $value2="1,5"; $res1=$value1*1; $res2=$value2*1; echo "Res 1 : $res1 \n"; echo "Res 2 : $res2 \n"; ?> outputs: decimal_point: . Res 1 : 1,5 Res 2 : 1 Reproduce code: --------------- In my linux: [root@farm2 root]# export LANG=es_ES [root@farm2 root]# locale -k decimal_point decimal_point="," The script: <?php setlocale(LC_ALL, 'es_ES'); $locale_info = localeconv(); echo "decimal_point: {$locale_info["decimal_point"]}\n"; $value1="1.5"; $value2="1,5"; $res1=$value1*1; $res2=$value2*1; echo "Res 1 : $res1 \n"; echo "Res 2 : $res2 \n"; ?> outputs: decimal_point: . Res 1 : 1,5 Res 2 : 1 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25246&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=trysnapshot5 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25246&r=gnused