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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Locale-independent double-to-string cast
From: aharvey@php.net (Adam Harvey)

On 2 October 2013 10:57, Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@oracle.com> w=
rote:
> 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 =E2=80=94 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.)

Adam