From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA18194; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:15:24 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA22380; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:15:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from fw.m12.ru ([195.162.49.123]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5ECFLSH020620; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:15:21 +0200 Received: from jah.m12.ru ([192.168.1.1]) by fw.m12.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZq8k-0003fm-00; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:00:38 +0700 Received: from codedj by jah.m12.ru with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZq8k-00053c-00; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:00:38 +0700 To: Xavier Leroy Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] string_of_float -> float_of_string locale dependency bug References: <20040614115444.A14769@pauillac.inria.fr> From: Evgeny Chukreev Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:00:38 +0700 In-Reply-To: <20040614115444.A14769@pauillac.inria.fr> (Xavier Leroy's message of "Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:54:44 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40CD96D9.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 locale:01 bug:01 2004:99 api:01 locale:01 interfacing:01 caml:01 float:02 float:02 o'caml:02 string:03 string:03 wrote:03 library:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:54:44 +0200 /Xavier/ /Leroy/ wrote me: XL> The C library API for internationalization is largely broken, and as XL> you can see there is nothing we can do to work around the fact that XL> the current locale is a global variable for the whole program. Thanks for answer. I think it is good idea to include this topic into O'Caml documentation (Interfacing C with Objective Caml). -- ... WBR, Evgeny ... ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners