localeconv

[Klaus Reimer <k-php@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I just noticed an annoying issue with locales in PHP and I'm not sure if 
this behaviour is intended or it's a bug.

I'm doing the following:

	setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE');
	$l = localeconv();
	printf("Decimal point: %s\n", $l['decimal_point']);
	printf("Thousands sep: %s\n", $l['thousands_sep']);

This should output a "," as decimal point and a "." as thousands 
separator but it does only output the standard characters (A dot as 
decimal point and nothing as thousands_sep).

My de_DE locale is properly set up. All other data returned by 
localeconv is correct (EUR currency, Euro currency symbol, monetary 
decimal point and monetary thousand separator and so on). Only the 
decimal_point and thousands_sep is not working.

Also interesting is that printf("%.2f", 123.45) correctly outputs 
"123,45". So PHP IS using a comma as decimal point but why does it not 
show up in localeconv()?

I tried exactly the same code in C on the same machine and this is 
working perfectly:

	#include <locale.h>
	
	int main(int argc, char *argv[])
	{
	    struct lconv *l;
	
	    setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_DE");
	    l = localeconv();
	    printf("Decimal point: %s\n", l->decimal_point);
	    printf("Thousands sep: %s\n", l->thousands_sep);
	    return 0;
	}

This outputs correct german decimal point and thousands separator.

Is there a reason for this misbehaviour of PHP? Or is it a bug? I 
encounter this with PHP 5.0.2 and 4.3.9.

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