Bug #17079: setlocale changes the internal representation of floats

From: Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 18:02:12 +0000
Subject: Bug #17079: setlocale changes the internal representation of floats
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From:             jonathan@tricolon.com
Operating system: Red Hat Linux 7.1
PHP version:      4.1.2
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  setlocale changes the internal representation of floats

If I set my locale to Dutch in my php-script that converts currencies for a
Dutch site, I noticed that also the internal representation of floats
change as well. In Europe an amount of tenthousand dollars is written as
follows: $10.000,00 unlike the USA $10,000.00
So if I set the locale to "nl_NL" the internal representation of a float
with a point to seperate the integer part from the decimals (for example:
$amount = 68.123) is changed to a representation of a comma ','. I would
like to see it changed because it messes up calculations and the different
locale settings should (IMHO) apply only to output function and such.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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Fixed in CVS:        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17079&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17079&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:      http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17079&r=needtrace
Try newer version:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17079&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17079&r=support
Expected behavior:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17079&r=notwrong
Not enough info:     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17079&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17079&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17079&r=globals

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