Re: Locale-independent double-to-string cast

Am 02.10.2013 20:38, schrieb Adam Harvey: > On 2 October 2013 10:57, Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@oracle.com> wrote: >> On 10/02/2013 10:26 AM, Nikita Popov wrote: >>> I'd like to change our double-to-string casting behavior to be >>> locale-independent and would appreciate some opinions as to whether you >>> consider this feasible. >> >> I'd like to see float/double casts recognize the locale's decimal >> separator. > > That's an interesting idea, and arguably one that's more in line with > what PHP has been doing. > > I'd be really interested to hear from people in countries where the > decimal separator is a comma, since I don't have any experience with > this myself as an Anglophone — do you run PHP in your native locale, > and if so, would it be better to always have dots, as Nikita suggests, > or support parsing numbers with commas? (Or some combination therein.) +1 This is an issue I often ran into. In my opinion on type casting a value from/to string it should use the standard computer format and not a localized one. To format to a localized format we have a function named "number_format" and since PHP 5.3 the class "NumberFormatter". Additionally "setlocale" is a process operation that makes issues on multi threaded envs. So temporary reset the locale isn't same, too. My little two cent from germany Marc