On 8/31/2016 11:23 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> So, the answer to your question is determined by what your locale thinks >> is the appropriate representation; and I have no control over whether >> Windows' locale defaults will match glibc's locale defaults for en_US or >> any other locale outside of C. > > > It is because I have been burned on this (world wide customers) that I > know explicitly specify the format I want to work with in my scripts > and disregard whatever the local is. >
In other words, don't trust a default to provide the exact representation needed for your process to work correctly. You cannot control what a default might return so be specific if you have a specific format required. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
