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From: Daniel Schoepe <daniel@schoepe.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: printf doesn't respect locale
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 17:00:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPy=dbJCXN96RKb7VQQt2wurtJQrRAkkUtrNv+F9prvmA+714A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190909175452.GO9017@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 6:55 PM Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
> It's not a discrepancy; the set of locales supported by an
> implementation, unless it includes the POSIX localedef utility/option,
> is implementation-defined. musl's definition does not include locales
> where the radix point is not '.'

Thanks, that makes sense. However, it may make sense to document this
assumption in the FAQ entries related to printf.

> I really really really don't like the feature of changing the radix
> point, and this implementation choice was intentional, but it's come
> up several times with people being upset that it's not in line with
> musl's mission of being multilingual-friendly. I think it deserves
> some consideration again along with upcoming locale improvements.
> There's at least one past thread with design sketches on how it would
> need to be done (and what needs to be done anyway for LC_MONETARY
> stuff), and sadly it got no feedback from people interested in
> improved locale functionality which is why I've kinda let it be for
> the time being...

I'm also not a fan of this behavior, I actually stumbled across this
when tracking
down a bug the different radix usage caused.

Best,
Daniel

>
> Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-10 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-09 16:31 Daniel Schoepe
2019-09-09 16:39 ` Daniel Schoepe
2019-09-09 16:51 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-09 17:55   ` Rich Felker
2019-09-09 17:54 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-10 16:00   ` Daniel Schoepe [this message]
2019-09-10 16:31     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-10 16:44       ` Tim Tassonis
2019-09-10 17:30         ` Rich Felker
2019-09-10 17:10       ` Daniel Schoepe
2019-09-10 17:33         ` Rich Felker
2019-09-10 18:43         ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-10 21:55           ` A. Wilcox
2019-09-11 10:01             ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-09-11 10:07               ` Jens Gustedt
2019-09-11 11:44                 ` Rich Felker
2019-09-11 12:53                   ` Jens Gustedt
2019-09-11 13:47                     ` Rich Felker
2019-09-11 15:15                       ` Jens Gustedt
2019-09-11 15:38                         ` Rich Felker
2019-09-11 18:08                           ` Jens Gustedt

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