North American? ...
On 22/09/15 12:45 AM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
From: Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:29:03 +0000 (UTC)
On 2015-09-21, Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote:
The function that parses funny numbers is iswdigit() which gets a wchar_t.
But sleep(1) doesn't need that.
The sole somewhat realistic use of i18n in sleep(1) is the decimal
separator, so you could do
$ sleep 1,5
in an appropriate locale. Of course the current code doesn't support
that.
And fortunately POSIX agrees with our implementation:
The following operand shall be supported:
time
A non-negative decimal integer specifying the number of
seconds for which to suspend execution.
You could argue that the thousands separator should be supported though:
$ sleep 1.000.000
if your locale is something vaguely european, and
# sleep 1,000,000
for the north-americans.
I grew up with "," separators as British Commonwealth, not
North American. The Commonwealth does extend beyond Canada;
the British Empire precedes the USA; so you might just call
"," (as 10^3 separators) British, Commonwealth or non-Euro.
Douglas (Australia)
But let's not go there...
