Re: Bug (?): The LC_NUMERIC variable

[Chuck Swiger]

On Dec 6, 2006, at 2:21 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> I tried both it internally at my code (an assignment LC_NUMERIC=C  
> in the
> BEGIN statement) and externally (at the DOS prompt, before  
> launching the
> gawk interpreter) but nothing changes. (I also would like to know  
> where to
> find a list of the possible values for the LC_NUMERIC variable,  
> since I
> found it nowhere throughout the Internet...).
>
> At this point, either I absolutely misunderstood how to use the  
> LC_NUMERIC
> variable, or there is a bug in gawk.

Changing the locale settings such as the LC_NUMERIC environment  
variable, is well-defined in POSIX environments, but it depends on  
the underlying operating system to provide support for the  
capabilities, and I'm not sure that the right support exists on  
Windows.  You might find that installing Cygwin and running awk  
within a Cygwin bash shell will provide better support for what you  
are doing, rather than running awk from a DOS prompt.

As for the complete list of locales, that varies from operating  
system to operating system and from release to release; the complete  
list for a specific environment can be obtained by "locale -a", which  
on one system of mine returns:

% locale -a
C
POSIX
af_ZA.ISO8859-1
af_ZA.ISO8859-15
af_ZA.UTF-8
am_ET.UTF-8
be_BY.CP1131
be_BY.CP1251
be_BY.ISO8859-5
be_BY.UTF-8
bg_BG.CP1251
bg_BG.UTF-8
ca_ES.ISO8859-1
ca_ES.ISO8859-15
ca_ES.UTF-8
cs_CZ.ISO8859-2
cs_CZ.UTF-8
da_DK.ISO8859-1
da_DK.ISO8859-15
da_DK.UTF-8
de_AT.ISO8859-1
de_AT.ISO8859-15
de_AT.UTF-8
de_CH.ISO8859-1
de_CH.ISO8859-15
de_CH.UTF-8
de_DE.ISO8859-1
de_DE.ISO8859-15
de_DE.UTF-8
el_GR.ISO8859-7
el_GR.UTF-8
en_AU.ISO8859-1
en_AU.ISO8859-15
en_AU.US-ASCII
en_AU.UTF-8
en_CA.ISO8859-1
en_CA.ISO8859-15
en_CA.US-ASCII
en_CA.UTF-8
en_GB.ISO8859-1
en_GB.ISO8859-15
en_GB.US-ASCII
en_GB.UTF-8
en_IE.UTF-8
en_NZ.ISO8859-1
en_NZ.ISO8859-15
en_NZ.US-ASCII
en_NZ.UTF-8
en_US.ISO8859-1
en_US.ISO8859-15
en_US.US-ASCII
en_US.UTF-8
es_ES.ISO8859-1
es_ES.ISO8859-15
es_ES.UTF-8
et_EE.ISO8859-15
et_EE.UTF-8
fi_FI.ISO8859-1
fi_FI.ISO8859-15
fi_FI.UTF-8
fr_BE.ISO8859-1
fr_BE.ISO8859-15
fr_BE.UTF-8
fr_CA.ISO8859-1
fr_CA.ISO8859-15
fr_CA.UTF-8
fr_CH.ISO8859-1
fr_CH.ISO8859-15
fr_CH.UTF-8
fr_FR.ISO8859-1
fr_FR.ISO8859-15
fr_FR.UTF-8
he_IL.UTF-8
hi_IN.ISCII-DEV
hr_HR.ISO8859-2
hr_HR.UTF-8
hu_HU.ISO8859-2
hu_HU.UTF-8
hy_AM.ARMSCII-8
hy_AM.UTF-8
is_IS.ISO8859-1
is_IS.ISO8859-15
is_IS.UTF-8
it_CH.ISO8859-1
it_CH.ISO8859-15
it_CH.UTF-8
it_IT.ISO8859-1
it_IT.ISO8859-15
it_IT.UTF-8
ja_JP.SJIS
ja_JP.UTF-8
ja_JP.eucJP
kk_KZ.PT154
kk_KZ.UTF-8
ko_KR.CP949
ko_KR.UTF-8
ko_KR.eucKR
la_LN.ISO8859-1
la_LN.ISO8859-15
la_LN.ISO8859-2
la_LN.ISO8859-4
la_LN.US-ASCII
lt_LT.ISO8859-13
lt_LT.ISO8859-4
lt_LT.UTF-8
nl_BE.ISO8859-1
nl_BE.ISO8859-15
nl_BE.UTF-8
nl_NL.ISO8859-1
nl_NL.ISO8859-15
nl_NL.UTF-8
no_NO.ISO8859-1
no_NO.ISO8859-15
no_NO.UTF-8
pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl_PL.UTF-8
pt_BR.ISO8859-1
pt_BR.UTF-8
pt_PT.ISO8859-1
pt_PT.ISO8859-15
pt_PT.UTF-8
ro_RO.ISO8859-2
ro_RO.UTF-8
ru_RU.CP1251
ru_RU.CP866
ru_RU.ISO8859-5
ru_RU.KOI8-R
ru_RU.UTF-8
sk_SK.ISO8859-2
sk_SK.UTF-8
sl_SI.ISO8859-2
sl_SI.UTF-8
sr_YU.ISO8859-2
sr_YU.ISO8859-5
sr_YU.UTF-8
sv_SE.ISO8859-1
sv_SE.ISO8859-15
sv_SE.UTF-8
tr_TR.ISO8859-9
tr_TR.UTF-8
uk_UA.ISO8859-5
uk_UA.KOI8-U
uk_UA.UTF-8
zh_CN.GB18030
zh_CN.GB2312
zh_CN.GBK
zh_CN.UTF-8
zh_CN.eucCN
zh_HK.Big5HKSCS
zh_HK.UTF-8
zh_TW.Big5
zh_TW.UTF-8

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-Chuck