Re: thousands separator

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.  Try this program and let us know what you get.

I suspect that if you compile it with cygwin that it will work; it
would be a better test to compile with djgpp or whatever the gnuwin32
project uses.

Eli - maybe you can supply Gary a binary of this program?

Thanks,

Arnold

> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:42:24 -0400
> To: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> From: Gary Ashburn <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: thousands separator
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> I have cygwin (gcc), VB and .NET
>
> I don't know what it is you want me to do though in the code. If you 
> can send me the code you want tested I'll compile it.
>
> At 03:05 PM 7/4/2009, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:51:01 +0300
> > > From: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > >
> > > I retrieve the locale information when the program starts up (by a call
> > > to localeconv()) and copy the structure. This is in main().
> > >
> > > The actual formatting is handled manually in format_tree() in builtin.c.
> > >
> > > It sounds like a Vista bug. Eli, you're using XP, right?
> >
> >I use XP, yes.
> >
> >Gary, do you have a Windows compiler installed that you can use to
> >build programs?  If so, how about writing a short test program that
> >calls localeconv and then prints what localeconv returned in the
> >`thousands_sep' member of the lconv structure it returns?

-------------- save as thousep.c --------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>

struct lconv loc;               /* current locale */

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "");
        loc = *localeconv();

        printf("decimal_point = %s\n", loc.decimal_point);
        printf("thousands_sep = %s\n", loc.thousands_sep);
        printf("grouping; = %s\n", loc.grouping);
        printf("int_curr_symbol; = %s\n", loc.int_curr_symbol);
        printf("currency_symbol = %s\n", loc.currency_symbol);
        printf("mon_decimal_point = %s\n", loc.mon_decimal_point);
        printf("mon_thousands_sep = %s\n", loc.mon_thousands_sep);
        printf("mon_grouping = %s\n", loc.mon_grouping);
        printf("positive_sign = %s\n", loc.positive_sign);
        printf("negative_sign = %s\n", loc.negative_sign);

        return 0;
}