Re: localeconv not working

From:	Moriyoshi Koizumi	Date:	Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:33:59 +0000
Subject:	Re: localeconv not working
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On 2004/11/03, at 17:11, Derick Rethans wrote:

It's assigned to me for now... I'll have a look at it this week. Does somebody remember why we need to mangle the locale anyway by resetting LC_NUMERIC to "C"?

Good to hear the problem is then going to be addressed. According to the annotation, the change (1.320) was made by Ilia with the following comment:

    This patch fixes handling of floats on locales where decimal point is
    not a '.'. Problem is best demonstrated by bug #17079.

    ( http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php-src/ext/standard/string.c?r=1.320 )

I suppose the root of the problem is that the engine relies on strtod() that is affected by the locale settings. IIRC, there are some threads regarding this... I can't name one though. Moriyoshi