Some details on the named locale problem

Paolo Carlini pcarlini@unitus.it
Mon Jan 28 15:32:00 GMT 2002


Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> No.  If the locale contains an empty string it means an empty string.
> The grouping string is irrelevant since adding an empty string
> anywhere wouldn't change the output.  If you substitute ',' for NUL
> this what be completely wrong.

Ok... Thanks.

Therefore, in general we will leave the thousands separator as returned by libc
and, in the case of glibc, we will infer from the particular value \0 a grouping
== "", right?

The patch I have just posted, for the time being does just this.

Cheers,
Paolo.




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