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LC_NUMERIC formatting [FEATURE REQUEST]
From: |
Boruch Baum |
Subject: |
LC_NUMERIC formatting [FEATURE REQUEST] |
Date: |
Wed, 2 Jun 2021 14:54:41 -0400 |
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NeoMutt/20180716 |
Please consider having the elisp 'format' function adopt the
single-quote and 'I' flags. Each is already implemented in both the GNU
C printf command and the linux printf command. The single-quote flag is
part of the 'Single UNIX Specification' and the 'I' flag has been part
of glibc since version 2.2 [ref: man(3) printf].
If function 'format' uses 'printf' as its backend, this would seem to be
a matter of exposing an existing feature.
The single-quote flag applies a locale's thousands' grouping characters
if appropriate, which I only find currently implemented as user-defined
functions, ie. outside of emacs-core.
$ printf "%'d\n" 1234
1,234
The 'I' flag [from man(3) printf]:
uses the locale's alternative output digits, if any. For example,
since glibc 2.2.3 this will give Arabic-Indic digits in the Persian
("fa_IR") locale.
$ LC_ALL=fa_IR.utf8 /usr/bin/printf "%Id\n" 1234
۱۲۳۴
$ LC_ALL=fa_IR.utf8 /usr/bin/printf "%'Id\n" 1234
۱٬۲۳۴
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