Bug #17079 Updated: setlocale changes the internal representation of floats

From: Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 18:36:58 +0000
Subject: Bug #17079 Updated: setlocale changes the internal representation of floats
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 ID:               17079
 Updated by:       mfischer@php.net
 Reported By:      jonathan@tricolon.com
-Status:           Open
+Status:           Critical
 Bug Type:         Feature/Change Request
 Operating System: Red Hat Linux 7.1
 PHP Version:      4.1.2
 New Comment:

This is dangerous indeed. We've had already reports about this (forgot
#, or did it even only came up on php-dev@?).

Though It may sound trivial, please provide a short self-contained
script showing the (mis-)behaviour.

Marking as critical for now.


Previous Comments:
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[2002-05-07 14:02:11] jonathan@tricolon.com

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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