On 12/3/25 5:38 AM, Léa Gris wrote:
So for Bash it is ok to set TMOUT to 3.141592 with LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8
decimal_point=","
The code that parses TMOUT for the read builtin uses `.' instead of the
locale's decimal point (it predates bash's i18n). Maybe it should
recognize both.
So why is it not ok to printf '%f\n' 3.141592 with LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8
decimal_point="," then?
Because POSIX requires the arguments to the %f conversion specification to
be converted (as if by) using strtod(3), and strtod is locale-aware.
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