On 2005-08-18 17:53:24 -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:52:36PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2005-08-18 21:53:47 +0200, Branko Čibej wrote:
> > > Mike Stump wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > printf ("%d", i);
> > [...]
> > > Now imagine that the output of the original program depends on the
> > > locale that's in force at execution time, which defines numberic
> > > output to be in arabic numerals (real ones, not the sort we see in
> > > ASCII).
> >
> > Is it possible? I would have thought that only the decimal-point
> > character depends on the locale.
>
> The digits we use come from the Arabs, and look much the same in Arabic.
> Check an Arabic-language site, for example http://www.aljazeera.net/ .
I agree, but you don't answer the question. The point is that they
are different characters. I think the digits mentioned by Branko
are the characters U+0660 to U+0669 (ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO and
so on). Many languages have their own 0 to 9 digits in Unicode.
But I don't think the decimal digits used for %d above depend on
the locale (e.g. I don't think a C implementation may use them if
it uses the ASCII ones in the C locale).
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