Re: Date with three-letter month

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> Indeed, I've already seen that: when setting the locale to fr_FR.utf8,
>> without resetting it to C just after the tex.print(), then I get this
>> error:
>> !luaTeX error (file /opt/TeX-live/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman12-regular.otf): Parsing CFF DICT failed. (error=-1)
>>  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> 
>   Interesting :-)  I suppose some of the strings are localized (like,
> decimal points being replaced by decimal commas).  I already had that
> when writing a small script to output PDF by hand.

Just about all string-to|from-float C functions (like strtod, scanf,
atof, printf) and even the string-to|from-integer ones (strtol, scanf),
are automatically influenced by the locale.  The same is true for all
tests like isspace() and isalpha(). It is intended to be helpful,
but as a programmer I simply hate it.

Cheers, Taco
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