Hi! [email protected] skribis:
> I have problems to get a proper formatting using the (ice-9 format) > module. In my code, I need to deal with monetary figures, but I fail > to get the correct format for my German locale. > Let's say I have one hundred thousand Euros. The correct format to output > this in de_DE.utf-8 would be > 100.000,00 EUR > (with 2 decimals) > > Now I tried: > (setlocale LC_ALL "de_DE.UTF-8") > (use-modules (ice-9 format)) > (define a 100000.00) > (format #t "~12,2h EUR~%" a) > (format #t "~,,12$ EUR~%" a) > (format #t "~12,2f EUR~%" a) > > But this is what Guile gives to me: > 100.000,0 EUR > 100000.00 EUR > 100000.00 EUR It seems to work as advertised for me: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(ice-9 i18n) scheme@(guile-user)> (number->locale-string 10000.01 2 (make-locale LC_ALL "fr_FR.utf8")) $13 = "10 000,01" scheme@(guile-user)> (number->locale-string 10000.01 2 (make-locale LC_ALL "de_DE.utf8")) $14 = "10.000,01" scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(ice-9 format) scheme@(guile-user)> (setlocale LC_ALL "de_DE.utf8") $15 = "de_DE.utf8" scheme@(guile-user)> (format #f "~12,2h" 10000.01) $16 = " 10.000,01" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- That’s on GNU/Linux (glibc 2.24). Note that number formatting data comes from the C library. What C library do you use? Thanks, Ludo’.
