On 01/31/2013 11:25 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> A less clear cut example is printf(1).
> POSIX states that LC_NUMERIC controls the format
> of the numbers _written_.
> In coreutils we're careful to reset to the C locale
> so that strtod etc. work consistently.
POSIX says that in non-C locales, strt
On 01/30/2013 11:05 PM, Benny Amorsen wrote:
Apparently ping has now started interpreting its command line arguments
depending on locale. I.e. ping -i 0.1 no longer works in locales where
comma is the decimal separator.
This makes it difficult to call system commands. The only workaround is
to s
