Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:51:05 +0100
From: Kamil Rytarowski <n...@gmx.com>
Message-ID: <e1ba49e4-f6ce-4f56-57ad-050846460...@gmx.com>
| sort(1)
| stat(1)
Those take no floating point input that I can see. For sort,
its only use of floats would be sorting files containing them,
for which (I assume) one would want and expect the file
to be a locale specific format, and for sort to recognise
the floats in a locale specific way. Whether our sort does
that or not I have not tested (I have no files with floating
numbers in them, and if I did, they'd use '.' ...)
| bc(1)
| dc(1)
Those have their own purpose built language with
a tightly specified grammar. They even consider
A B C ... as numbers, not as letters. They are
useless as a point of consideration.
| timeout(1)
That uses strtod() to parse the floating point command
line args, so is locale specific, but just like FreeBSD's
sleep, does not call setlocale() so runs only in the C
(aka POSIX) locale, and so does not adapt in any
way to the user's locale settings (including any output
it might generate in the case of an error - no locale
specific strerror() strings.)
| printf(1)
This one perhaps. But again, what it accepts is very
precisely specified (that we had not noticed that we did
not implement that was, I think, an oversight, which will
be fixed).
kre
