localeconv not working

Hello,

I just notices that localeconv is not working properly (at least in PHP
5.0.2 and 4.3.9), it does not return the correct thousands_sep and
decimal_point (See my mail at php-general). Now I took a quick look in
the source code and I found this in ext/standard/string.c (function
setlocale):

         if (cat == `LC_NUMERIC` || cat == LC_ALL) {
             struct lconv lc;
             localeconv_r(&lc);

             EG(float_separator)[0] = (lc.decimal_point)[0];

             if ((lc.decimal_point)[0] != '.') {
                 /* set locale back to C */
                 setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");
             }
         }

I think this explains the misbehaviour. If I do a "setlocale(LC_ALL,
'de_DE')" then the PHP function resets LC_NUMERIC to "C". So what chance
have I to get the LC_NUMERIC configuration of a specific locale now?
Well, I think there was a good reason to reset LC_NUMERIC to C but this
breaks localeconv(). I want to read the LC_NUMERIC configuration of the
selected locale to use these informations with the number_format()
function but I can't do it because of the above code. Is there a workaround?

If not, then I suggest one (or both) of the following improvements:

1. setlocale remembers the real LC_NUMERIC setting before reseting it to
   C and localeconv sets this remembered locale before calling the
   localeconv_r() function. After the data has been retrieved, it resets
   LC_NUMERIC to C. in that way localeconv() behaves correctly and PHP
   still sticks to the default LC_NUMERIC setting.

2. You give localeconv optional parameters (same as setlocale) so it can
   be used to retrieve the locale configuration of a specific locale
   WITHOUT changing the global locale at all.

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