On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Pierre Joye wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Raphael Geissert <geiss...@php.net> wrote:
> > Raphael Geissert wrote:
> >>
> >> If there's no objection, I would like to remove them entirely and use
> >> strtol in php_filter_int.
> >
> > By the way, I don't think that the fact that strtol is locale-aware should
> > be a reason to make the change. Since scripts are expected to use the value
> > returned by filter_var() there should be no problem with the fact that
> > strings such as "100'000" are accepted as a valid integer, under certain
> > locales.
> 
> Please don't commit this change. I remember some issues with strtol
> (portability, BC breaks, etc.). Please wait until we figured them out,
> or find back in the archives why strtol could be a bad idea.

Poratability was indeed the reason, as well as the locale issues that 
you mention (POSIX locales==useless). Please don't commit this.

regards,
Derick

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