Re: thousands separator

[Gary Ashburn]

BTW - thanks and great job bringing this useful tool to windows


http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/gawk-bin-zip.php

Regional-Lang-Opts / Location: United States
123,456,789.00
$123,456,789.00
5:50:44 PM
7/3/2009
Friday, July 03, 2009

Vista Ultimate SP1

I had it reset all customizations
reselected English (US) for non-Unicode programs

opened a fresh cmd window and retested with similar (random) results

C:\C\UTIL>awk -f awktest.awk
123å456å789

C:\C\UTIL>awk -f awktest.awk
123c456c789






At 09:12 AM 7/3/2009, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Where did you get your Gawk binary?  Mine was compiled from sources
> with the MinGW port of GCC.
>
> Also, what is your Windows locale?  You can see that if you click
> Start->Control Panel->Regional and Language Options, on the "Regional
> Options" tab.  (The names are probably different on Vista.)  Please
> also tell what language is selected for non-Unicode (a.k.a. ANSI)
> programs.  On XP, this is in the Advanced tab of the same applet as
> described above.