oh. If lc uses sh not bash, might need to parse whatever the default shell
resource file is for the LANG string, at which point you could manually set
it before calling locale. I don't recall if sh and bash are similar enough
to eat the same file.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If theres a .bashrc file, or .. well I forget what its name is supposed to
> be, you might try
>
> shell("source path/to/my/.bashrc; locale -k LC_NUMERIC")
>
> Basically, find the file that bash loads, source it to force to be
> processed, and then tack your command onto the end.
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Peter Haworth <p...@mollysrevenge.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Warren.  I just used the message box on my Mac and got the same
>> (incorrect) output too.  It's good to know if works under Linux though
>> because that makes me think it's an LC bug even more.
>>
>> I'm currently researching if there's a way to get this info using
>> Applescript (without issuing a shell command I mean) as a means to work
>> around the problem.
>>
>> Pete Haworth
>>
>> On Mar 1, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Peter,
>> >
>> > Doing 'put shell("locale -k LC_NUMERIC")' in the message box returns the
>> > same (expected) result for me here, running Linux, as I get in a
>> > terminal. Same for putting the result into a field. I do get the same
>> > unexpected behavior as you under OS X, however. I know this doesn't help
>> > you solve you problem, but at may help isolate whatever bug it is that's
>> > causing it.
>> >
>> > Good Luck,
>> >
>> > Warren
>>
>>
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