Hey Antony, This is most likely due to some issues with serialize/unserialize and floating point numbers; we don't want the format to change with the locale, since it should be independent.
Yes, it is a mess :) --Wez. > -----Original Message----- > From: Antony Dovgal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 May 2004 13:22 > To: php-dev > Subject: [PHP-DEV] setting LC_ALL to it's current value during startup > > Hi all! > > Could somebody explain me why we're setting only LC_CTYPE to > it's current value in main/main.c, line 1368 ? > What is the reason to make all users to call setlocale() > explicitly to set LC_ALL ? > > Of course, there can be some reasons I'm unaware of, but I'd > like to propose following tiny patch: > > Index: main.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /repository/php-src/main/main.c,v > retrieving revision 1.601 > diff -u -r1.601 main.c > --- main.c 24 Mar 2004 13:33:26 -0000 1.601 > +++ main.c 18 May 2004 12:14:12 -0000 > @@ -1365,7 +1365,7 @@ > PG(disable_classes) = NULL; > > #if HAVE_SETLOCALE > - setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""); > + setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); > #endif > > --- > WBR, > Antony Dovgal aka tony2001 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php