Hi Christian,
thanks for the info. The problem is, though, that calling
setlocale()
in GNU APL is problematic since I cannot possibly know beforehand
what the locale of the user will be. And I cannot know all
peculiarities
of all possible locale
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 7:07 AM Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <
mail@jürgen-sauermann.de> wrote:
> [...]
> The problem is, though, that calling setlocale()
> in GNU APL is problematic since I cannot possibly know beforehand
> what the locale of the user will be.
>
Can't this be set in ~/.gnu-apl/preference
Hi Blake,
in theory: yes. The problem is that the behaviour of locales can be quite
unpredictable and therefore allowing to change it means that the underlying
glibc may produce results that are no easy to foresee. The current problem
(the thousands' separator) is a good example for this.
For mo
Hi Jürgen,
I see. Perhaps controlling this programmatically, as I believe you
described, does make more sense.
Thanks!
Blake
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 11:29 AM Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <
mail@jürgen-sauermann.de> wrote:
> Hi Blake,
>
> in theory: yes. The problem is that the behaviour of locales ca
