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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>
> Cc: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>,  manikulin@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:56:34 +0300
> 
> On 10/06/2021 22:23 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > I don't think it's TRT for Emacs to expose locale-dependent features
> > that cannot be controlled from Lisp, sorry.  We need to find a better
> > way.  For example, there could be a Lisp variable that specifies the
> > group separator character, and then 'format' could use that character
> > when the format spec includes %'.  Which means we'd need to implement
> > that in our own code; patches welcome.
> 
> Maybe an alternative set of specifiers, which output data in
> locale-specific format.  Then a single variable to let-bound around
> format, which instructs what locale to use.  Very simple...

Sorry, I don't think I understand what you propose.  Please elaborate
on the "alternative set of specifiers, which output data in
locale-specific format".