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Re: [bug-recutils] Locale issues [was: Comparison operator on reals fail


From: Jose E. Marchesi
Subject: Re: [bug-recutils] Locale issues [was: Comparison operator on reals fails]
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:46:17 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux)

Hi John.

    Ahh! I know why! I had my locale set to de_DE were . is not the
    decimal separator.  It works when I set LC_ALL=C
    
    However this raises a number of questions?
    
    * Why didn't recfix at least warn me that the fields declared as real
      were not valid in the current locale?

Because the checking is performed using a fixed regexp wich uses the dot
to separate mantissas from the decimal part.
    
    * There should be something about this in the user manual.

We must temporarily change the locale to LC_ALL before using strtod, in
order to make it using a fixed syntax for real numbers, i.e. the dot
separates mantissa from decimal part.

We are already doing that when parsing dates for example:

setlocale (LC_TIME, "C"); /* We want english dates that can be
                             parsed with parse_datetime */
strftime (outstr, sizeof(outstr), "%a, %d %b %Y %T %z", tmp);
setlocale (LC_TIME, ""); /* And restore the locale from the
                            environment. */
    
    * How does locale affect other things.  For example: 
         - does LC_COLLATE change the sort order?

Well, is LC_COLLATE affecting strcmp?

         - the  documentation says that "A field name is a sequence of 
alphanumeric characters"
         does that mean it consults the LC_CTYPE catagory to decide what it 
"alphanumeric"?  If 
             so, this could mean that something which is a valid field name in 
one locale is invalid
             in another.

Hmm, good question :)
    
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Jose E. Marchesi         http://www.jemarch.net
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