Re: CSV parsing and other issues (Re: LC_NUMERIC)

[Boruch Baum]

On 2021-06-10 21:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:01:45 -0400
> > From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
> > Cc: Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> >   Please consider exposing to the elisp `format' function the
> >   single-quote and upper-case 'I' format specifiers of the libc (or
> >   other) `printf' command.
> >
> > Doing this will just offer an elisp programmer a new option.
>
> That would make the output of 'format' dependent on the current
> locale

That's the elisp programmer's business, not your responsibilty.

> ...
> And I don't think you had any ideas for how to resolve those issues,
> or did I miss something?

Yes, that I haven't invested in responding about those issues because I
don't see any of them as relevant.

  + Elisp function `format' exists.

  + Elsip function `format' uses `printf' format specifiers.

  + Elisp function `format' doesn't expose two of them.

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