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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mxmoz@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject: Re: bin/72006: floating point formating in non-C locales
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The following reply was made to PR bin/72006; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mxmoz@aldan.algebra.com>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/72006: floating point formating in non-C locales
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:28:18 -0400

 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
 
 >On 2004-09-22 16:51, Mikhail Teterin <mi+mxmoz@aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
 >  
 >
 >>>      en_US locale            Greek locale
 >>>          1,000.00                1.000,00
 >>>      2,000,000.00            2.000.000,00
 >>>      
 >>>
 >>These numbers are not parsable one way or the other -- the "thousand
 >>separators" are not, AFAIK, supported at all:
 >>
 >>   printf: 2.000.011
 >>   printf: 2.000.011: not completely converted
 >>   2
 >>    
 >>
 >
 >True, but partial support already exists for producing these numbers
 >with the %'f format of printf:
 >
 >$ env | egrep -e 'LANG|LC_'
 >LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-1
 >LANG=en_US
 >$ printf "%'.02f\n" 12345678
 >12,345,678.00
 >  
 >
 Are we planning to ever _recognize_ such numbers? If not, we may as well 
 recognize the dot always and the coma (or whatever) -- sometimes.
 
 Anyway, this is moot. We should be doing, what relevant RFCs/standards 
 proscribe. I thought I saw somewhere, that the dot is supposed to be 
 recognized, but I can't find a link now (everybody talks about 
 implementations, rather than specifications). We need a judgment of some 
 standards guru... Yours,
 
     -mi