On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 12:41:04PM +0200, Dominic Dunlop wrote:
> Locale = eu_ES
> $VAR1 = {
> 'currency_symbol' => 'Eu',
> 'decimal_point' => '\' ',
> 'frac_digits' => 2,
> 'grouping' => '',
> 'int_curr_symbol' => 'EUR ',
> 'int_frac_digits' => 2,
> 'mon_decimal_point' => ',',
> 'mon_grouping' => '',
> 'mon_thousands_sep' => '.',
> 'n_cs_precedes' => 1,
> 'n_sep_by_space' => 1,
> 'n_sign_posn' => 1,
> 'negative_sign' => '-',
> 'p_cs_precedes' => 1,
> 'p_sep_by_space' => 1,
> 'p_sign_posn' => 1,
> 'thousands_sep' => '.'
> };
>
> Notice the really silly decimal_point for the eu_ES locale. (I'm also
> vaguely surprised that none of the locales I've tried has a grouping
> or mon_grouping defined.) I've posted this as a bug to Apple (Bug ID#
> 4139653).
Yes, I'd say it's an apple bug. It might actually be in printf. Here's a
pure C test case:
$ cat locale.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
char *locale;
while((locale = *++argv)) {
struct lconv *l;
if (!setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, locale)) {
printf("setlocale for '%s' failed\n", locale);
continue;
}
l = localeconv();
printf ("locale >%s<, separator = >%s<, 1.23 prints as >%.3g<\n",
locale, l->decimal_point, 1.23);
}
return 0;
}
$ ./locale eu_ES
locale >eu_ES<, separator = >' <, 1.23 prints as >1'23<
If it's not a bug, I'd like to know why the C standard lets you skip putting
the space in the string in printf.
Nicholas Clark
