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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Incorrect locale support for decimal_point
From: jan@horde.org (Jan Schneider)

Zitat von David Guerrero <david@boe.es>:

> Hi!
>
> I opened Bug #25246 some days ago. The bug was closed as "bogus" by
> Sniper.
>
> I think that this issue (locale numeric settings) is not correctly
> addressed in the php core. And i would like to open a discussion about
> it, because i think is a very important one.
>
> As stated in the bug report, this breaks backward compatibility with 4.2
> and older releases. I think that an innapropiate patch broke this in the
> end of 2002.
>
> The question is that databases returns float values with "," or "."
> based in its own locale (good locale behavior). I can't understand why
> php could not work with these settings as usual. Why the new "reset the
> locale setting" is better?
>
> There is not a workaround solution for applications manipulating those
> values (maybe an database function returning floats always with ".").
>
> Please, consider this as a genuine bug as this could make a lot of
> people outside the US, to stick with older versions of PHP.

100% agreed, I already tried to put that on the agenda again, without luck:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104993859300001&r=1&w=2

Jan.

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