Re: printf and locale

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/23/2013 02:48 PM, Rik wrote:

> It
> seems to me that we either need to seriously examine the code base for all
> possibe locale-aware constructs, or back off until we have enough time and
> manpower to tackle this project.

I'd prefer to revert previous changes and give locales more complete 
thought before jumping in.  It would probably make sense to think about 
how to deal with other internationalization issues at the same time 
(unicode, anyone?).

Whatever we decide, we need to take the following into consideration for 
compatibility with Matlab:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/how-the-matlab-process-uses-locale-settings.html

Note that Matlab unconditionally uses the C locale for LC_NUMERIC. 
Using something different is just begging for future bug reports about 
compatibility.

jwe