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Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC)
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC) |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:28:38 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 19:36:38 -0400
> From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
> Cc: Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> 1] @Maxim: You seemed to indicate that the default emacs locale is 'C'.
> That may be true
That's only true for LC_NUMERIC category.
> 2] @Eli: You wrote
>
> > > The problem with that, of course, is that not every supported
> > > platform can dynamically change the locale, let alone do that
> > > efficiently.
>
> I have no idea to what actual supported platform you're referring.
GNU/Linux is the only one I know of that can efficiently switch
locales dynamically (and even that in recent versions of libc, AFAIR).
> > > Text processing in Emacs is generally separate from the current
> > > locale's rules,
> > > ...
> > > So passing a locale argument to functions that produce output,
> > > with the intent to request some behavior to be tailored to that
> > > locale, is the only reasonable way to have this kind
>
> Agreed. My input here is that there should be clear documentation of
> how to retrieve a value for that argument from a buffer's context,
> (maybe the same way that flyspell does?).
Sorry, I don't see the relevance. I was talking about calling
functions, so how does some buffer enter this picture? Buffers don't
have anything to do with the locale used by library functions called
by Emacs.
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC), Boruch Baum, 2021/06/06
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC), Boruch Baum, 2021/06/07
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/07
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC), Stefan Monnier, 2021/06/08
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC), Maxim Nikulin, 2021/06/08
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/08
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC), Maxim Nikulin, 2021/06/10
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/10
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC), Boruch Baum, 2021/06/10
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/10
- Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC), Boruch Baum, 2021/06/10