On 2013-01-30, Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 set LC_ALL to a known-good locale, but then your users get no benefit > from the translations of error messages and so on. > This is not easy problem. If you print localalized values, then there is natural desire for symmetry. Hence locale specific arguments. File name arguments: Two users use different codeset, both operates on the same file system. They cannot cooperate without locale sensitive decoding. There are many other scenerarion and it's generally accepted that process arguments as well as other texts are locale specific. I understand it makes your code more difficult but nobody says doing things right is easy. (You still have to format float to string when building execve() arguments. sprintf() respects locale. Just setlocale() at the beginning of your main()). -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
