Re: POSIX::localeconv()/Germany

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:05:59PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
 Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 2:45:24 PM, Dave Cross wrote:
 
 DC Haven't tried the routine you're talking about, but if you ever decide to 
 DC give up on them, the Number::Format module (from CPAN) will solve all of 
 DC your problems.
 
 After RTFM'ing about that fine module, I thought I found my problem.
 I was using thousand_sep instead of mon_thousand_sep (for money).
 Alas, the same problem occurs.
 
 Number::Format gets it's locale info from POSIX::localeconv, so other
 than the niceness of have it doing the formating of the numbers, it
 doesn't look like it will help me much. :(

What happens if you set LC_ALL to de_DE in the environment?  I can
make the correct separator appear then using the locale command:

% env LC_ALL=de_DE locale mon_thousands_sep
.
% env LC_ALL=de_DE locale mon_decimal_point
,

And I would imagine that perls locale stuff is just a veneer over the C
library...  Especially as it's POSIX::localeconv you're using. ;-)

-Dom

Re: POSIX::localeconv()/Germany

[Dave Cross]

At 20:18 23/05/2001, you wrote:
Anybody have experience with POSIX localization functions/clients in
Germany?

I've got a client in .de that wants prices to look like this:
DEM 1.234,00
i.e., the thousands sep is a . and the decimal is a ,.

The posix routines return a space for the thousands sep and a dot for
the decimal, so prices look like:
DEM 1 234.00

Do I just have weird clients or is $lconv-{thousands_sep} returning
the wrong value?

Mike,

Haven't tried the routine you're talking about, but if you ever decide to 
give up on them, the Number::Format module (from CPAN) will solve all of 
your problems.

Danke,

Bitte,

Dave...


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Re: POSIX::localeconv()/Germany

[Mike Jarvis]

Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 2:45:24 PM, Dave Cross wrote:

DC Haven't tried the routine you're talking about, but if you ever decide to 
DC give up on them, the Number::Format module (from CPAN) will solve all of 
DC your problems.

After RTFM'ing about that fine module, I thought I found my problem.
I was using thousand_sep instead of mon_thousand_sep (for money).
Alas, the same problem occurs.

Number::Format gets it's locale info from POSIX::localeconv, so other
than the niceness of have it doing the formating of the numbers, it
doesn't look like it will help me much. :(


-- 
mike