Subject: setlocale
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 20:33:51 CDT
Hi,
I'd just like to remind everyone about an important part of localization -
setlocale(). I've been chasing a few bugs in the tree caused by people not
using setlocale().
When should you use it? At least before and after every sprintf() that has a
numeric value. We've got to make sure that these formatted numbers work
right (our number parsing routines don't know what to do with 8,500in and
they shouldn't have to - 8.500in is the standard we're sticking to).
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C"); // set locale to C
sprintf(buf, "%.4f", float_foo);
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, ""); // reset locale
Thanks,
Dom
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