On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:48:00PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I usually run my shell with LC_ALL set to de_DE. Usually using LC_ALL is not a very good idea. It's better to use LANG, or, if you want only particular aspects of the program behaviour to be localized, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGE, LC_TIME, LC_NUMERIC.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ printf "%1.1f\n" 1 > 1,0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ unset LC_ALL > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ printf "%1.1f\n" 1 > 1,0 I'd execute `locale' command at this point. More information about the issue is available as locale(7) (i.e. `man 7 locale') -- Mike
