Public bug reported:
The LC_NUMERIC section of locale(5) includes:
decimal_point
followed by the string that will be used as the decimal delim-
iter when formatting numeric quantities.
.. without constraint on what the string may include. However locale-gen
appears to reject any attempt to define decimal_point to a string longer than
one character, with the message:
LC_NUMERIC: value for field `decimal_point' must be a single character
[error] LC_NUMERIC: field `decimal_point' not defined
If that constraint is intended, I think locale(5) should specify it.
(There may be a similar issue for thousands_sep, I didn't test that.)
Found on bionic with locales-2.27-3ubuntu1.2, I did not check other
releases.
Motivation: I wanted to define a longer decimal_point so as to test the
robustness of an application's number formatting.
** Affects: glibc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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(doc?) locale-gen disagrees with locale(5)
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