Bug#353452: LC_NUMERIC support

2006-02-23 Thread Tore Anderson
close 353452 quit * Martin Buck > Don't get me wrong - I can fully understand the motivation behind your > request, but I simply don't think that calc is the kind of application > that should be locale-dependent. IMHO, this is something for GUI > calculators or really simple command-line calculat

Bug#353452: LC_NUMERIC support

2006-02-22 Thread Martin Buck
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:41:34AM +0100, Tore Anderson wrote: > Personally I use it mostly as an interactive application, for whenever > I need to do some calculation. Me too. > I just like it better than bc. Anyway, > in this case it is somewhat annoying that I always have to remember to

Bug#353452: LC_NUMERIC support

2006-02-20 Thread Tore Anderson
* Martin Buck > I'm not convinced that this would be a good thing. calc effectively is a > programming language, and making the syntax of a programming language > dependent on locale settings doesn't sound like a good idea to me (if gcc > started to do that, I'm pretty sure it would get a few grav

Bug#353452: LC_NUMERIC support

2006-02-18 Thread Martin Buck
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:10:08PM +0100, Tore Anderson wrote: > Hi. It would be great if calc supported LC_NUMERIC: I'm not convinced that this would be a good thing. calc effectively is a programming language, and making the syntax of a programming language dependent on locale settings doesn'

Bug#353452: LC_NUMERIC support

2006-02-18 Thread Tore Anderson
Package: apcalc Severity: wishlist Hi. It would be great if calc supported LC_NUMERIC: $ LC_ALL=nn_NO calc '0,5 + 0,5' Line 1: unused value ignored Line 1: unused value ignored 5 The expected result here would be "1", as the Norwegian decimal separator is the comma (as