Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 04:50:39 GMT From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/72006: floating point formating in non-C locales Message-ID: <200409230450.i8N4oddo086362@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/72006; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mxmoz@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/72006: floating point formating in non-C locales Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:40:49 +0300 On 2004-09-22 16:51, Mikhail Teterin <mi+mxmoz@aldan.algebra.com> wrote: > > en_US locale Greek locale > > 1,000.00 1.000,00 > > 2,000,000.00 2.000.000,00 > > These numbers are not parsable one way or the other -- the "thousand > separators" are not, AFAIK, supported at all: > > printf: 2.000.011 > printf: 2.000.011: not completely converted > 2 True, but partial support already exists for producing these numbers with the %'f format of printf: $ env | egrep -e 'LANG|LC_' LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-1 LANG=en_US $ printf "%'.02f\n" 12345678 12,345,678.00 So we might want to avoid treating . as an equivalent of the thousands separator, in case someone comes up with a good way to implement any functionality we currently might not have.
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