http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47007
--- Comment #12 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-12-19 21:32:49 UTC --- Vaguely related: PR 35862 (rounding on input). Both PR 35862 and this PR seem to require writing a libgfortran-specific version of strtof/strtod/strtold/quadmath_strtopQ - currently, the system's version is called in convert_real. The only alternatives I see are: a) To reset the locale for every READ statement ('setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C")') - and restore it afterwards. b) To use localeconv and convert the decimal sign appropriately in the string (as currently done for DECIMAL="comma") - again, this needs to happen for every READ statement c) Simply document (gfortran.texi) that messing around with "setlocale" might produce surprising results. [LC_ALL/LANG environment variables do not have any effect unless "setlocale" is explicitly called. Cf. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/functions/setlocale.html] I think (a) and (b) are (too) slow and cumbersome and regarding (c): No one reads the documentation.