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Cc: Klaus Reimer <k-php-dev@ailis.de>, internals@lists.php.net
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 18:33:59 +0900
To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] localeconv not working
From: moriyoshi@at.wakwak.com (Moriyoshi Koizumi)


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